Quotes About Effort

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.

If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

What greater glory attends a man than what he wins with his racing feet and his striving hands?

Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

A lot of the men were upset or jealous of me because I got the girl. Men are always trying too hard. When I effortlessly get the girl, it pisses them off.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Old men grasp more at life than babies, and leave it with a much worse grace than young people. It is because all their labours having been for this life, they perceive at last their trouble lost.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there" "Values are meant to be costly. If it doesn't cost much, we probably wouldn't appreciate the value

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.

Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

It's like our daddies and moms always used to tell us growing up, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you earn.