Quotes about Effort

The Christian life is very much like climbing a hill of ice. You cannot slide up. You have to cut every step with an ice axe. Only with incessant labor in cutting and chipping can you make any progress. If you want to know how to backslide, leave off going forward. Cease going upward and you will go downward of necessity. You can never stand still.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Short cuts make for long delays.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.

The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!