As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.
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.
Silence is difficult and arduous, it is not to be played with.
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices.
The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations.
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.
The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.
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.
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
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.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
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.
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.
