Quotes About Effort

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

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

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

Generally, it's better to understand that change is a matter of patience and persistence, setbacks and renewed effort, rather than sudden perfection.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

When it comes to personal consciousness evolution, doing nothing or making a minimal effort is an intentional choice that, as any choice, produces consequences. In this game there are no spectators or bystanders – innocent or otherwise.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble…. A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Not what I Have," continues he, "but what I Do is my Kingdom.

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a Product

Know thyself': long enough has that poor 'self' of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to 'know' it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this knowing of thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at; and work at it, like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan.

to be weak is not so miserable; but to be weaker than our task.

The man who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.