No pains, no gains.

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One of the earliest attestations of the phrase comes from the poet Robert Herrick in his Hesperides. In the 1650 edition, a two-line poem was added:

NO PAINS, NO GAINS.
If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

Hesperides 752.