Quotes About Effort

Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.

It would come dearer...for when a person comes to grind off poetry night after night, it is but right that he should expect to be paid for its weakening effect upon his mind.

dropped his master's head upon the floor with a pretty loud crash, and then, without an effort to lift it up, gazed upon the bystanders, as if he had done something rather clever than otherwise.

I suppose I must catch it — like a cough,

if he had had any such exalted expectation, he would not have prospered. He had expected labour, and he found it, and did it and made the best of it. In this, his prosperity consisted.

Al que renuncia a intentarlo no le queda ya otro recurso que acostarse y dejarse morir.

So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Never confuse movement with action. —Ernest Hemingway

For too many believers the Christian life boils down to simply doing the best they can.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Only a mediocre team is always at its best

Verbs. All of them tiring.

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens, but in bringing them within reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort. —JOSEPH SCHUMPETER1

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

The hardest work is to go idle.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

What a pity that we can not accomplish our salvation as easily as our damnation.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

Although I myself, due doubtless to defective skill, have to work pretty hard, I do not believe in too hard work... A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.