Quotes about Effort
Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
- Proverbs 13:11
There is profit in all labor, but mere talk leads only to poverty.
- Proverbs 14:23
The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the effort of fools is folly.
- Proverbs 14:24
The way of the slacker is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.
- Proverbs 15:19
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
- Proverbs 19:24
The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.
- Proverbs 20:4
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
- Proverbs 21:25
As a door turns on its hinges, so the slacker turns on his bed.
- Proverbs 26:14
The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
- Proverbs 26:15
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
- Proverbs 27:16
The one who works his land will have plenty of food, but whoever chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.
- Proverbs 28:19
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 1:3