Top 142 Arduous Quotes & Sayings

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.

When education feels arduous or like a task, a lot of times you don't get people to open the door to interact with it.

I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day!

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

In its early days, Trump's presidency ought to be viewed as the arduous start to the complicated task of draining the Washington swamp.

Discipline is the long and arduous process of convincing the mind to abide by one's conscience.

Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

For much of their history, life for most people in China was arduous and circumscribed - and people travelled as little as they could.

In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out.

There is so much work to working that there are moments, moments, where I stop and look around, and it seems too arduous to go on. It isn't, of course.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

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 amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

I attempt an arduous task but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement

Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.

Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting does.

It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Mr. Speaker, high natural gas prices and the summer spike in gasoline prices serve as a stark reminder that the path to energy independence is a long and arduous one.

No, I'm not angling for huge fame. My career has been a very slow, arduous climb to the middle.

Golf seems to me an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dogs out.

Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

The military has a way of ruining all the best recreational activities - scuba, sky diving, camping, hiking - all made much more miserable with a heavy rucksack on your back under arduous conditions.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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 must be good at learning.

It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

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 know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

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 anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.

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. It is arduous and it is rare.

Writing one's first novel, getting it sold, and shepherding it through the labyrinths of editing, production, marketing, journalism, and social media is an arduous and nerve-wracking process.

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 good.

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.

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 good.

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

A water route to Chinese trade replacing the long, arduous Silk Road was a great dream of the Renaissance.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.

Drop envy and jealousy, otherwise there is no possibility - because love cannot exist where envy and jealousies exist. Then your search is only for a certain type of power: that in the name of love you are just trying to fulfill the ego. And it is arduous to drop, because love exists only when all the negative elements of the mind are dropped. It is very arduous.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

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 serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.