Quotes About Effort

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

That man is idle who can do something better.

If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good

The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

First of all, I swore it was two people playing. When I finally admitted to myself that was one man, I gave up the piano for a month. I figured it was hopeless to practice.

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.