Quotes About Effort

When the warrior fails in any one particular pursuit of knowledge he is not defeated, because in walking the path of knowledge we fight many battles – some we win, some we lose. Success lies not in how many battles we have won, but in how well we have fought.

The best hunters are not those with a natural aptitude for hunting, but those who have had to struggle long and hard to learn every trick of the trade.

Your time, energy and resources will get used no matter how well you focus them. By choosing to focus properly, you get the highest return for the efforts you invest in your life. Most people spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important. Productivity is not just about getting things done, it's about getting the right things done.

A man must break his back to earn his day of leisure.

By the fall of water-drops the pot is filled: such is the increase of riches, of knowledge, and of virtue.

Prosperity attends the lion-hearted man who exerts himself, while we say, destiny will ensure it. Laying aside destiny, show manly fortitude by thy own strength: if thou endeavour, and thy endeavours fail of success, what crime is there in failing?

Prosperity is acquired by exertion, and there is no fruit for him who doth not exert himself: the fawns go not into the mouth of a sleeping lion.

The potter forms what he pleases with soft clay, so a man accomplishes his works by his own act.

Good things don't come easy. If you get it cheap, you will lose it quick. -Okiki Michael

Let no lost love break you. If you really did beyond your best, that's one thing to make you proud of your innumerable abundance

Der Versuch, dem objektiven Gehalt Bachs zu seinem Recht zu verhelfen, indem man die subjektive Anstrengung bloß daran wendet, das Subjekt auszumerzen, überschlägt sich. Objektivität bleibt nicht als Rest der Substraktion des Subjekts zurück.

Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains.

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea about writing: that it can be done, and done well, without a great deal of effort. Dancers practice every day, musicians practice every day, even when they are at the peak of their careers – especially then. Somehow, we don't take writing as seriously. But writing – writing wonderfully – takes just as much dedication.

pride must be in the work, not the person.

They brought even their goats with them; and one goat can undo in an afternoon what it has taken decades to establish.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

The men and women who have the right ideals ... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.

In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.

When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

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.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.