"It is only through labor and painful..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.”
“I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control.”
“If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness," unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality.”
More on Effort
“Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.”
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.”
“To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing.”