Quotes About Effort

The trouble some idiots go to

Give them a fine reputation to live up to, and they will make prodigious efforts rather than see you disillusioned.

The best things are the most difficult.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

Será que o Dr. Olsen queria dizer que não deveríamos fazer nenhum esforço para nos prepararmos para o amanhã? Não. De modo algum. Ele afirmou que a melhor maneira de se preparar para o futuro é concentrando toda a sua inteligência e todo o seu entusiasmo em executar maravilhosamente hoje o trabalho de hoje. Essa é a única maneira de se preparar para o futuro.

No tiene usted ganas de sonreír? Bien, ¿qué hacer? Dos cosas. Primero, esforzarse en sonreír. Si está solo, silbe o tararee o cante. Proceda como si fuera feliz y eso contribuirá a hacerlo feliz.

We are not empathetic creatures naturally, so we must work at it.

for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today.

have yet to find the person, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

but a simple smile takes little effort—and the rewards can be astonishing.

There are a great many "wetless" bathing suits worn at the seashore, but no one ever learns to swim in them. To plunge is the only way.

Did Dr. Osler mean to say that we should not make any effort to prepare for tomorrow? No. Not at all. But he did go on in that address to say that the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

May I just give you this word? Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.

Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

Faith is not opposed to knowledge; faith is opposed to sight. And grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning.

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

Divine grace is God acting in our life to accomplish what we cannot do on our own. It informs our being and actions and makes them effective in the wisdom and power of God. Hence, grace is not opposed to effort (our actions) but to earning (our attitude).

To train means arranging our life around those practices that enable us to do what we cannot now do by direct effort. The point of training is to receive power, so we arrange our life around practices through which we get power.

You have only to "stay tuned," and you can arrive at a perpetual state of confusion and, ultimately, despair with no effort at all.

Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the Kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.