Quotes about Effort

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

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

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

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