Quotes About Effort

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

Problems always appear big when incompetent men are working on them.

The Working Man's Creed: "A short day is better than a short dollar" .

The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will never get very far.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.

Man tends always to satisfy his needs and desires with the least possible exertion.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

I want to put some effort into a bunch of different types of videos. I don't think I'm gonna do 'Man On The Street' messing with people, I don't think I'm gonna do over-the-top wacky comedy.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?

Could five hundred men have painted the Sistine Chapel?

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

There was a little man, and he had a little soul; And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.

The man who has done his best has done everything. The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.