Quotes about Effort
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett
Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.
- John Owen
Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.
- Hudson Taylor
Alongside getting faith out of a heart that is utterly hostile and unbelieving, making a silk purse out of a sow's ear or getting blood from a turnip is child's play.
- John Gerstner
Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
- Napoleon Hill
We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.
- Alistair Begg
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
- Philip Yancey
Your success is not determined by what you have, but by what you do with what you have.
- Myles Munroe
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Fixin' onything is man's work," came Opal's firm answer. Tearin' down or killin', that thar's easy. Any addle-pated fool kin pull the trigger of a rifle-gun or fling a rock. It's fixin' that's hard, takes a heap more doin'.
- Catherine Marshall
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
- Glenn Beck
Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.
- Gordon Hinckley