Arduous Quotes
98 quotes by 92 authors
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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
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
— Andre Gide
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Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.
— Anne, Princess Royal
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.
— Wes Fesler
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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
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I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement
— Ovid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as…
— Andrea Dworkin
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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
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... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.
— Dennis Ritchie
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Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
— Lesley Garrett
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Daily hope is vital, since the ‘Winter Quarters’ of our lives are not immediately adjacent to our promised land either. An arduous trek still awaits,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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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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