Quotes about Effort

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.

The natural thing to do is to work to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort. Human ills flow largely from attempting to escape from this natural course.

For the day's work is a great thing—a very great thing! It is at the very foundation of the world; it is the basis of our self-respect.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

How many Christians there are who cannot pray, and who seek by effort, resolve, joining prayer circles, etc., to cultivate in themselves the ''holy art of intercession,'' and all to no purpose. Here for them and for all is the only secret of a real prayer life—''Be filled with the Spirit,'' who is ''the Spirit of grace and supplication.'' —REV. J. STUART HOLDEN

True preaching is the sweating of blood. —DR. JOSEPH PARKER

Just because Fate doesn?t deal you the right cards, it doesn?t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.