Quotes about Effort

What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

Some of the presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

The highest prize we can receive for creative work is the joy of being creative. Creative effort spent for any other reason than the joy of being in that light filled space, love, god, whatever we want to call it, is lacking in integrity. . .

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again. A radical forgiveness is a complete letting go of the past, in any personal relationship, as well as in any collective drama.

We are poor because we do not work with love.