Quotes about Effort
Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.
- Anne Graham Lotz
It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.
- Ashton Kutcher
Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.
- Barack Obama
Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.
- Calvin Coolidge
If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.
- Charles Spurgeon
You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight.
- Ernest Hemingway
I grew up believing that the willingness and ability to work is the basic ingredient of successful farming. Hard, intelligent work is the key. Use it, and your chances for success are good.
- Ezra Taft Benson
You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.
- Francis Chan
A good solid bit of work lasts.
- George Eliot
Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.
- Gordon Hinckley
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.
- Marianne Williamson