No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

FDR had failed in his effort to get America behind the war effort until Pearl Harbor, although he was convinced Hitler had to be confronted. What he thought was: 'If Britain goes down, we're next,'