Quotes about Effort
What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
- George Whitefield
You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down.
- CS Lewis
I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.
- Joyce Meyer
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
- Samuel Johnson
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
- Confucius
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
- Simon Sinek
Worrying gets you nowhere. If you turn up worrying about how you're going to perform, you've already lost. Train hard, turn up, run your best and the rest will take care of itself.
- Usain Bolt
There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
- Zig Ziglar
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
- Mother Teresa
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombardi
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
- Myles Munroe
The backbone of success is...hard work, determination, good planning, and perserverence.
- Mia Hamm