Quotes About Effort

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.

Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. But you're right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

No man fails who does his best.

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.