Quotes about Effort
We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
- Watchman Nee
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
- George Eliot
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
- Phillips Brooks
Put legs to your prayers
- Ray Comfort
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
- Aesop
Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.
- Bo Sanchez
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.
- William Osler
Art is the effort to appreciate and express the God who is its Beauty.
- William Temple
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
- David O. McKay
Hard work, says the Scottish proverb, never killed a man.
- David Ogilvy