Quotes About Effort

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.

Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

If a man seriously proposes to go in for lifting heavy weights, he should make a point of practising certain lifts every day. This daily practice is essential to the achievement of any real success.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Men can be a great deal of work for very little reward.

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

I'm not perfect, I'm a flawed man, but I'm willing to try to get better, I'm willing to listen.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself

The difference between one man and another is not mere ability... it is energy.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.