Effort

"These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity."

"Give Me leisure, all the time Maecenas found For Horace and his Virgil, and Ill try To build a masterpiece destined to live And save my name from ashes. When the ground Is poor, the ox works listlessly; rich soil Tires, but theres satisfaction then in toil."

"Inscribe all human effort with one word, Artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!"

"He has called on the best that was in us. There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. “After you have done the best you can,” he used to say, “the hell with it.”"

"If there is effort, there is always accomplishment."

"Those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes."

"The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort."

"Verily, the Hour is coming but I am about to make it manifest so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives."

"In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized."

"Somebody said that it couldnt be done, But he with a chuckle replied "maybe it couldnt," but he would be one wouldnt say so till hed tried. he buckled right in with the trace of a grin his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldnt be done, and he did it."

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

"Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve."