Quotes about Effort

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!

Do what you can, with what you have, right where you are.

The fact is that successful people fail far more often than unsuccessful people. Successful people try more things, fall down, pick themselves up, and try again—over and over again—before they finally win.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.