Quotes about Effort
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
The first is that learning to preach is difficult, and the difficulty is not greatly relieved by having a skilled instructor or by the discovery that one seems to be naturally a "good talker.
— Fred Craddock
How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?
— Brandilyn Collins
For the pharisee the emphasis is always on personal effort and achievement. The gospel of grace emphasizes the primacy of God's love. The pharisee savors impeccable conduct; the child delights in the relentless tenderness of God.
— Brennan Manning
The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan, organize or manipulate God; but without a careful discipline, we cannot receive him either.
— Henri Nouwen
Setting our hearts on something involves not only serious aspiration but also strong determination. A spiritual life requires human effort. The forces that keep pulling us back into a worry-filled life are far from easy to overcome.
— Henri Nouwen
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
— Henri Nouwen
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
— Henry B. Eyring
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
— Henry David Thoreau