Effort

There is no effort without error and shortcoming.

If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

It is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough.

The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

You can only waste the passing moment.

So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.

He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.

I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.

No newspaper reading in trains!

I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.

The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.

In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.

Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.

He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.

He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.

It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.

We have no reason to fear lest a habit of conscientious inquiry should paralyze the actions of our daily life.

It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.

There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.