Quotes about Effort

We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

High victory is made in those early morning hours when no one's watching and while everyone else is sleeping.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist. I don't have faith in two plus two equals four or in the noonday sun. Those are beyond question. But Scripture describes God as a hidden God. You have to make an effort of faith to find him. There are clues you can follow.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.

And it certainly did seem a little provoking ('almost as if it happened on purpose,' she thought) that, though she managed to pick plenty of beautiful rushes as the boat glided by, there was always a more lovely one that she couldn't reach. The prettiest are always further! she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off.

He was like a horse running downhill harnessed to a heavy cart. Whether he was pulling it or being pushed by it he did not know, but rushed along at headlong speed with no time to consider what this movement might lead to.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

The classes that wash most are those that work least.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.