Quotes about Effort

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

You rescued me when I thought nobody would. When I thought I wasn't worth the effort. You gave me everything and asked for nothing.' She pressed her face to mine. 'If this is love on the other side of the rescue, then I want to live it. With you. But,' She shook her head. 'But if you give you to me, then'- she placed her palm flat across my chest -'come heavy

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.

Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.'" (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

There are three ways that men get what they want: by planning, by working, and by praying.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Remember, never despise a task—any task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.

God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.