Quotes about Effort

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular and always positive. This may be a comfortable cushion for those who find the hard facts too difficult.

Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform... none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day.

Any problem can be solved with patience, wisdom and earnest effort.

Nothing ever comes to me, that is worth having, except as the result of hard work.

I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant, unexpected encouragements of this kind (surprises) if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day of his life -- that is, tries to make each day reach as nearly as possible the high-water mark of pure, unselfish, useful living. I pity the man, black or white, who has never experienced the joy and satisfaction that come to one by reason of an effort to assist in making someone else more useful and more happy.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.