Quotes about Effort

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Remember it is harder still To have no work to do

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

She looked around the table. "All of you! You all worked together in concert perfectly. I am so proud of you! We did an impossible job, and we did it as well as it could be done. You not only worked together and did what was needed of you, you did more than a person can do, sometimes even more than a grown-up would do. I can't praise you enough. Thank you. And thanks to our heavenly Father.

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people.

Labor is a blessing, toil is the misery of man.

It is useless endeavor to fight the ego in the open; like a wounded hydra, it produces two heads for every one cut off. We must not indulge in self-scrutinization; we must not concentrate upon the problem of egocentricity. The way to purify the self is to avoid dwelling upon the self and to concentrate upon the task.

If a man says to you, I have labored and not found, do not believe him. If he says, I have not labored but still have found, do not believe him. If he says, I have labored and found, you may believe him.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.