Quotes about Effort
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
— Francis de Sales
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
— Saint Jerome
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
Exercise is labor without weariness.
— Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
— Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.
— Samuel Rutherford
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
— Henry Ford
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
— Gordon Hinckley
Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
— Harry S. Truman