Quotes about Effort

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

You are joined together with peace through the Spirit, so make every effort to continue together in this way. EPHESIANS 4:3 (NCV)

Knowing your purpose focuses your life. It concentrates your effort and energy on what's important. You become effective by being selective.

your own. You have probably tried to change many times and have failed to maintain the changes.

If the only answer ever to anything is You really need to do more and try harder your heart will eventually wear out. Along with your body. And your soul.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

We saw the risk we took in doing good, But dared not spare to do the best we could

And although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have.