Effort

I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.

France is making incredible sacrifices every day.

No effort will be considered too high a price to ensure the triumph of a nobler humanity.

I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand.

Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Fortune sides with him who dares

What does not kill me makes me stronger

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself

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

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.