Quotes About Effort

You can either choose to wait around and hope life gives you what you want—or you can choose to jump up and put in the work to make your dream come true.

[On Leadville:] Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

Simple active work and spiritual activity are not the same thing. Active work can actually be the counterfeit of spiritual activity.

regardless of how small the visible effects of our lives may appear to be. We have nothing to do with the outflow

Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' The promise of entering his rest still stands, so let us never give up. Let us, therefore, make every effort - spoudazo - make every effort to enter that rest.

Faith is the supreme effort of your life—throwing yourself with abandon and total confidence upon God.

Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

combat boots and helmets. The breeze rose and he walked crabwise, trying to give

Idleness ruins the constitution

Remove the temptation of idleness and cupids bow is useless.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Plato had to make the tremendous effort (it is one of the most exhausting which man is called on to exert) of turning a vague feeling into a clear thought.

And if it wasn't as good as before, what was the point of doing it? There wasn't a point, as far as I was concerned.

We'd recorded Black Sabbath in one day. Sabotage took about four thousand years.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well as now.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

Work hard, think hard, be honest, and spend little - this will "make common gold".

He hoped no one would wake him because burying people took time and was a lot of effort.