Quotes about Effort

kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Do whatever you can do, and refuse to sit and do nothing. Remember, do what you can do, and God will do what you cannot do.

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

When we do what we can do, God steps in and does what we can't.

Philippians 4:13 does not say we can do anything we want to do because we are strong enough, smart enough, or hardworking enough. No, in fact, it leaves no room at all for human effort or striving of any kind. The secret to being able to do what we need to do is realizing that we cannot do it alone; we can only do it in Christ.

Thomas Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."1

A person is not a failure because she tried some things that did not work out. She fails only when she stops trying.

There are thousands upon thousands of thoughts presented to us every day. The mind has to be renewed to follow after the Spirit and not the flesh. Our carnal (worldly, fleshly) minds have had so much practice operating freely that we surely don't have to use any effort to think wrong thoughts.