Quotes about Effort

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Misery, we repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration.

Work is the law; whoever spurns it as tiresome will have it as punishment

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom is still fierce and steady in the nation today. June 10, 1940

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

The price of success must be paid in full, in advance.

You'll always get out of life what you put in-and you control what you put in.

There is an old saying that "by the yard it's hard; but inch by inch, anything's a cinch!