Quotes about Effort

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

They which run in a race run all, but one receives the crown. " But of us on the other hand it is said: " So run that you may obtain. " [ 1 Corinthians 9: 24 ] Our master of the games is not grudging; he does not give the palm to one and disgrace another. His wish is that all his athletes may alike win garlands.

The pursuit of holiness requires sustained and vigorous effort. It allows for no indolence, no lethargy, no halfhearted commitment, and no laissez faire attitude toward even the smallest sins. In short, it demands the highest priority in the life of a Christian, because to be holy is to be like Christ — God's goal for every Christian.

Holiness requires continual effort on our part and continual nourishing and strengthening by the Spirit.

The experience of holiness is not a gift we receive like justification, but something which we are clearly exhorted to work at.

There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

If people adopt the values that make for personal success—hard work, careful spending of money, sustained effort, delayed gratification—and keep themselves psychologically healthy by rejecting rage and resentment as the controlling attitudes of their lives, they will do well.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.