Arduous Quotes

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide
Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out. — Anne, Princess Royal
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable… — Virginia Woolf
I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives, the… — Karch Kiraly
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's… — L. Sprague de Camp
Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience. — Wes Fesler
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once… — Lance Armstrong
I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement — Ovid
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepared… — James Madison
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a… — Alexander Hamilton
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring… — George Sand
You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases… — Vladimir Lenin
We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as… — Andrea Dworkin
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled… — Socrates
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie
Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices. — Lesley Garrett
Daily hope is vital, since the â€˜Winter Quartersâ€™ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits,… — Neal A. Maxwell
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we… — Benjamin B. Ferencz

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