Effort

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph

Diligence is the mother of good fortune

Success is dependent on effort

Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous

My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

There is no substitute for hard work