Quotes about Effort
I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.
- Paul Graham
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Deuteronomy 5:13
In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
- 2 Chronicles 31:7
Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
- Job 9:29
Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?
- Job 36:19
like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees
- Psalm 74:5
unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.
- Psalm 129:7
How long will you lie there, O slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?
- Proverbs 6:9
Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
- Proverbs 10:4
Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes, so is the slacker to those who send him.
- Proverbs 10:26
The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
- Proverbs 12:24
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
- Proverbs 13:4