Quotes about Effort

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels. Kira says that if everyone played the game to win, it'd be a lot more fun for everyone. —Anorak's Almanac, chapter 77, verses 11—20

Much effort, much prosperity.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

If you work, you always get your reward in the end.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.