Quotes about Effort

Many things — such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly — are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.

Any reward that is worth having only comes to the industrious. The success which is made in any walk of life is measured almost exactly by the amout of hard work that is put into it.

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

We can't claim heaven as our own if we are just going to sit under it.

Activity is the only road to knowledge.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.