#effort

The backward law: the more you strive for happiness, the further away it retreats.

The gods give nothing that is really good and noble without labor and careful attention.

In the arena of human life, honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

The greatest effort of the human will is the effort of attention.

No one succeeds without effort... Mind control is not your birthright. Those who have succeeded owe their success to perseverance.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

Full effort is full victory.

Work out your own salvation with diligence.

In the crucible of dedicated effort, character is purified.

He who seeks true knowledge must conquer indolence and sleep.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Do your human best, then entrust the outcome to heaven.

Just as a chariot cannot roll upon a single wheel, human destiny cannot advance without effort joined to destiny.

Even the finest cooking pot will never produce a feast without fire beneath it.

You cannot plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Those who look for gold dig much earth and find little.

No man was ever wise by chance.