It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Progress requires hard work, energy, and courage.
- In plain terms
- Hard work and courage are needed to improve things.
- What can you take from it?
- Hard work is the price of progress.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What effort are you making?
- Why is progress difficult?
Another view
Hard work alone does not guarantee success without direction.
More from Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
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