Quotes about Effort

God gave you the sea, but you still have to fish for yourself.

The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

If your work is stressful, it's not your work.

You don't scale a mountain with your mouth, but with your feet.

Think twice as much as others.Study twice as much as others.Work twice as much as others.Give twice as much as others.

There's something about taking the path of least resistance that makes a lot of sense. But at the same time, we have to figure out which things in life are worth struggling through.

Academic studies in general is not something that I'm very good at.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.

We can never make ourselves better by trying... praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don't get me wrong... it's not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it's good. It's just that doing them in God's power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and an invisible labour.