Quotes about Effort
So, Mr. Trabb measured and calculated me in the parlor, as if I were an estate and he the finest species of surveyor, and gave himself such a world of trouble that I felt that no suit of clothes could possibly remunerate him for his pains.
- Charles Dickens
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
- Charles Spurgeon
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle
- Charles Spurgeon
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
- Samuel Johnson
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.
- Mark Twain
Nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task…
- William James
I have tried so hard to do right.
- Grover Cleveland
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Step up your game and success will step up to you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.
- Matshona Dhliwayo