Quotes About Effort

Nothing of value comes without effort.

It is not the critic who counts. ... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly ... who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

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

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood... and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

It's really okay for low-hanging fruit to fail. It means the trial run did not work, but the church did not invest the resources in a major endeavor. Successful low-hanging fruit efforts are evident to almost everyone in the church. At the very least, there is a sense of encouragement in the congregation that something went well. Typically, though, the evidence is so compelling that the church becomes highly enthused. The excitement is palpable.

One of the biggest benefits of the low-hanging fruits effort is to show the naysayers that it can be done.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

You were born to work, so why do you look for rest?

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work.

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits.

Genius is 1 inspiration and 99 perspiration.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.