Quotes about Effort
For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
- Thomas a Kempis
If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
- DL Moody
Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.
- Jonathan Edwards
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
- Ellen White
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
- Carmelo Anthony
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
- Albert Camus
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
- Muhammad Ali
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
- CS Lewis
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
- Mahatma Gandhi
A man is worked on by what he works on.
- Frederick Douglass
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt