If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Much effort, much prosperity.