Endless Effort Quotes

Peace is not a matter of prizes or trophies. It is not the product of a victory or command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Ambition has no rest!

The battle of getting better is never ending.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.

I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

Ain't no mountain high enough, ain't no valley low enough, ain't no river wide enough, to keep me from getting to you.

The process of really changing your skin is painful and difficult and endless. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.

So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand.....