Quotes About Effort

Pray like it depends on God and work like it depends on you." But there are others, such as, "Criticize by creating," "Thou shalt offend Pharisees," and "Catch people doing something right.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

They force me to work like it depends on me and pray like it depends on God.

answer our prayers isn't that we aren't praying hard enough; the reason, more often than not, is that we aren't willing to work hard enough. Praying hard is synonymous with working hard. Think of praying hard and working hard as concentric circles. It's the way we double-circle our dreams and His promises. There comes a moment, after you have prayed through, when you have to start doing something about it. You have to take a step of faith, and

1. Do the best you can with what you have where you are. Success is not circumstantial. We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process. We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being

After we pray like it depends on God, we need to work like it depends on us. But if we don't pray first, our work won't work.

Almost anyone can accomplish almost anything if they work at it long enough, hard enough, and smart enough.

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.

He did not understand, he admitted to himself, how these elections worked. They seemed such a waste of effort to attain a dubious outcome. Better to know what is best for the people and give it to them by force, if necessary, until they are re-educated about their duties to the State.

Cooking is like exercise or spending time in nature or good conversation: The more you do it, the more you like it, the better you get at it, and the more you recognize that its rewards are far greater than its efforts and that even its efforts are rewards.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

There is no such thing as a perfect drawing, especially if you're ametur.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.

Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.

Once we determine in our souls that God's glory is our goal, we then stop taking the path of least resistance and start taking the path of most glory to God

The Key is to be like a Duck, Smooth and unruffled on the surface but paddling furiously underneath!

Bad things happen fast: The brakes give out; the stroller goes bouncing down the steps; the lump of gristle sticks in your throat (and sticks). Good things are all about progress: effort, expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be, as the poet says.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #11: IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU DO IT. IT ONLY MATTERS THAT YOU DO IT.

The only difference between realizing a dream and losing oneself in fantasy [is] backbreaking work.

even buying a user's manual—The Female Orgasm—and learned to his dismay that writing twenty-five thousand lines of code was cake compared to bringing a full-grown female to orgasm.

These people work hard and do their best, and they want the world to acknowledge that they're intelligent, valuable, and creative.

work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I

I strongly recommend the Reverse Play if you're dealing with someone who has the skills and ability to do a job, but isn't giving 100 percent.

Realizing that it isn't personal doesn't mean you shouldn't take it personally. If you don't, in fact, it may mean that you haven't put enough of yourself into the effort.