Quotes about Effort
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.
- Randy Alcorn
Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
- Joseph Heller