Quotes about Effort
Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.
— Seneca
Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.
— Anonymous
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
— Confucius
To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort.
— Ayn Rand
The prospect of experiencing pleasure was not worth the effort; he had no desire to experience pleasure.
— Ayn Rand
I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.
— Ayn Rand
There is no excuse for not trying.
— Barack Obama
Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?
— Barack Obama
Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.
— Barack Obama
Because, you know, contrary to the song of a great American master, we're generally not born to run. Most of us are born to run a little bit and go back home.
— Barack Obama
With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.
— Barbara Brown Taylor