Quotes About Effort

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety and nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.

The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work.

...for nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

You can't hit a home run every time.

The difference between the difficult and the impossible is that the impossible takes a little longer time.

Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…

You know you are getting old when it takes too much effort to procrastinate.

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise...

There is no short cut. For anything worth having one must pay the price, and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice — no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

He who would gather roses must not fear thorns.

He that plants thorns shall not gather roses.

We're all on different paths, but action is hard work and you must drive your own soul.

I'm not growing a beard; I'm just too lazy to shave.

We say we have to work so hard in in order to get so little in life. That little may be more than we need. Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.