Quotes about Effort

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts.

Everyone can run the race, but not to the same place.

Everyone can run the race, but not at the same pace.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

God makes it easy to begin: just do it! God also makes it easy to progress in prayer, for he rewards our efforts with peace and joy. And he makes it easiest of all at the end, for it gradually becomes more natural and delightful.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

Fields plowed and sown, but yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, but all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea and spread wide, but no fishes caught! All this for years — for a lifetime!

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

Our welfare in the hereafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.