Quotes About Effort

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

There's been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that's simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we've won when I score 10.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I realized that I was more of a sprinter than a marathon man. With a long, long project, I get bored easily.

Labour is good for a man, bracing up his energies to conquest, And without it life is dull, the man perceiving himself useless.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

I hate being out there with those garbage men. They don't get you the ball.

As funny as watching a man in a wig trying to hold down a job on a helipad

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy.

No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious.

A dying man can do nothing easy.

You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.