Quotes about Effort

It takes great effort, and considerable faith, to keep the Big Picture in mind. In some ways it makes me feel utterly insignificant, in some ways eternally significant

a long period of struggle and effort precedes nearly all worthwhile human accomplishments.

It has taken me years to distill the Gospel out of the subculture in which I first encountered it. Sadly, many of my friends gave up on the effort, never getting to Jesus because the pettiness of the church blocked the way.

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

Gratitude: Only when people remember the good others have done for them will they have gratitude. Unfortunately, however, most people remember the bad people have done to them far longer than the good. Or to put it another way, gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

Gratitude takes effort; resentment is effortless.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.

That view of the Cross, it cannot be denied, runs counter to the mind of the natural man. It is not, indeed, complicated or obscure; on the contrary it is so simple that a child can understand, and what is really obscure is the manifold modern effort to explain the Cross away in such fashion as to make it more agreeable to human pride.

Short cuts make long delays.

You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.