Arduous Quotes
98 quotes by 92 authors
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I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I…
— Aldous Huxley
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The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the…
— Stephen Leacock
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In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights of any kind,…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I…
— Martin Van Buren
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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
— Mortimer Adler
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Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that…
— George Eliot
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements…
— Yann Martel
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Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special…
— John Taylor Wood
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Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to…
— Robert E. Lee
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The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the…
— Colonel Sanders
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It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To win countrywide victory is only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li.... The Chinese revolution is great, but the road…
— Mao Zedong
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There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or…
— James Madison
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It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing…
— C.S. Lewis
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The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as…
— Og Mandino
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In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we…
— Mao Zedong
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint…
— Alain de Botton
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