Effort Quotes

“My endeavorsHave ever come too short of my desires.Yet filed with my abilities.”

“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”

“...lest too light winning make the prize light.”

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

“I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best.”

“The sweat of industry would dry and die,But for the end it works to.”

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”

“Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard.”

“Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.”

“Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.”

“If you cannot be free be as free as you can.”

“. . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest.”

“We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.”

“Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”

“We put our love where we have put our labor.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

“though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.”

“We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.”

“All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.”

“Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.”

“Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.”

“Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.”

“Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.”

“Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.”