Quotes about Effort
An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
- Martin Luther
We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us
- Charles Spurgeon
You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
- Amy Grant
When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him. . . . When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless
- Max Lucado
The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.
- Max Lucado
For faith with no effort is no faith at all.
- Max Lucado
The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.
- Max Lucado
greater than its cost. Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
- Max Lucado
You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.
- Max Lucado
Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya Angelou
Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.
- Maya Angelou