EFFORT

Related Subjects: Labor, Sweat, Work

1. If you would relish food, labor for it before you take it; if enjoy clothing, pay for it before you wear it; if you would sleep soundly, take a clear conscience to bed with you.—FRANKLIN
   

2. Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.—JAMES A. GARFIELD
   

3. Somebody said that it couldn't be done
   But he with a chuckle replied
   That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
   Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.—EDGAR GUEST, It Couldn't Be Done
   

4. Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;
   Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.—ROBERT HERRICK, Seek and Find
   

5. The lab'ring mountain scarce brings forth a mouse.—HORACE, Ars Poetica
   

6. No endeavor is in vain;
   Its reward is in the doing,
   And the rapture of pursuing
   Is the prize the vanquished gain.—LONGFELLOW, The Wind Over the Chimney
   

7. To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals—this alone is worth the struggle.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler