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No pain, no gain

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The idiom No pain, no gain means that you must endure hardship or effort (pain) to achieve success or improvement (gain). This phrase arose from gym culture in the 1980s, and can be applied to a number of everyday situations.

He believed that working very hard would pay off. No pain, no gain!