Quotes About Effort

I am sure that few successful men are so-called 'natural geniuses.'

Everything's a challenge, man. You just have to take each dance as its own separate thing and just go for it.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

Men, who achieve much, die as do those who achieve nothing.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

A man does not fight to win; it is better to fight in vain.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?

Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

Every man is free to push the mountains, but mountains won't move with these pushes.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

Skills vary with the man. We must tread a straight path and strive by that which is born in us.

It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

I don't know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.