Quotes About Effort

The one who quarries stones may be injured by them, and he who splits logs endangers himself.

If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.

The toil of a fool wearies him, for he does not know the way to the city.

Through laziness the roof caves in, and in the hands of the idle, the house leaks.

Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.

He dug it up and cleared the stones and planted the finest vines. He built a watchtower in the middle and dug out a winepress as well. He waited for the vineyard to yield good grapes, but the fruit it produced was sour!

What more could I have done for My vineyard than I already did for it? Why, when I expected sweet grapes, did it bring forth sour fruit?

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

“Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon caused his army to labor strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder made raw. But he and his army received no wages from Tyre for the labor they expended on it.

You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.

Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

So they went. He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing.

Likewise, the one with the two talents gained two more.

“Master,” Simon replied, “we have worked hard all night without catching anything. But because You say so, I will let down the nets.”

When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to tear.

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,

saying, ëThis man could not finish what he started to build.í

For in this case the saying ëOne sows and another reapsí is true.