Quotes about Effort
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed.
- AW Tozer
Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.
- Albert Schweitzer
To love and to labor is the sum of living.
- Anais Nin
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
But for failing love on our part, therefore is all our travail.
- Julian of Norwich
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive.
- Charles Swindoll
There's always risk in life's most rewarding pursuits, isn't there?
- Ted Dekker
We all play our roles. One person plants the seed, another waters it, but it grows only when the season is right.
- Ted Dekker
Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
- Julie Andrews
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
- Francis de Sales
I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.
- Fred Craddock