Quotes about Effort
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
- Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
- Samuel Johnson
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.
- Samuel Johnson
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
- John Calvin
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
- Henry Ford
The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.
- Les Brown
You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for
- Maya Angelou
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
- Charles Swindoll
There's no expert on this planet who says that the government telling people what to do actually does any good with this issue, this is going to require an effort on everyone's part.
- Michelle Obama
When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.
- Zig Ziglar
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
- Bill Johnson