"Nothing in the world is worth having..." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
More by Theodore Roosevelt
“My hat is in the ring.”
“Let us show, not merely in great crises, but in every day of life, qualities of practical intelligence, of hardihood and endurance, and above all, the power of devotion to a lofty ideal.”
“A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.”
More on Effort
“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.”
“The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.”
“Talent without work is useless, thank God”