Quotes about Effort

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.

You paid some way for everything that was any good. I paid my way into enough things that I liked, so that I had a good time. Either you paid by learning about them, or by experience, or by taking chances, or by money.

But, then, nothing is easy.

Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley