effort Quotes

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

No great thing is created suddenly.

If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything.

It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.