Quotes About Effort

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.

Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

And he who lives a hundred years, idle and weak, a life of one day is better if a man has attained firm strength.

Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

It is labor alone that is productive: it creates wealth and therewith lays the outward foundations for the inward flowering of man.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

I was one man and I tackled a big railroad. I did the best I could.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

We're all self-made men, but not very many of us have stayed on the job.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.