Top 44 Arduous Quotes

The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.

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.

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.

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

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 think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it’s much tougher to do it on film.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

Having made the trip from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean myself going up up up against twenty-five hundred miles of the Missouri River, I can testify that it’s one of the most arduous trips that anyone can make on this continent and yet I had a power boat to do it in.

The Humpback Trail on New Zealand’s South Island is really beautiful. It is a 70 km walk over about four days and is fairly arduous. You go through prehistoric forest and up to the top of Humpback Mountain, where there are amazing views down to the Tasman Sea.

While learning to code may have once been an arduous or expensive process, the college dropouts who developed Codecademy have democratized coding as surely as Gutenberg democratized text. Anyone can go to Codecademy and start learning and creating code through their simple, fun, interactive window, for free.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.

Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.

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.

I like to focus on stories that need to be told and are not told enough. When I get bit by that bug, and the story is saying, ‘You must tell me,’ I then go through a process which is often painful and arduous, and long – and joyful! – of submitting to the story until I prove a worthy enough vessel to get it out.

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.

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.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Making ‘The Avengers’ was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.

I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one’s understanding of the complexities of life, and I’m bad at it. I’m slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.

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 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.

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

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

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.

I’ve had people say, ‘Oh you’ve made whistleblowing cool.’ But it’s really not. It’s a good thing to do. And it’s the right thing to do. But it’s arduous and difficult, particularly if you are going up against something that’s really powerful and political.

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

When guys are in NXT – not me, but the guys who are signed to developmental deals that are there – they’re setting up the ring. They’re tearing it down. They’re working every day at the PC. And it’s arduous training, man. Those guys go through a lot.

French schools follow a national curriculum that includes arduous surveys of French philosophy and literature. Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.

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

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