Quotes about Effort

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly; 'tis dearness only that gives everything its value.

If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will not change a generation. Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the result of never getting tired.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.

Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!

You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.

I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.