Quotes About Effort

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.

To the man who himself strives earnestly God also lends a helping hand.

Happy relationships don't just happen. You make them happen.

Two people working on a relationship with the same energy & passion increases the chances of great results.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment.

Relationship is like a job but you can't ever retire. When you stop working at it, it stops working.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.

What's the secret to such a long and happy relationship? I don't know. Maybe because I work a lot.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

he was either ill or very old; he'd taken the stairs like he was climbing a mountain with a Sherpa on his back.

Beware of the easy path. Knowledge grows only through challenge.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly, at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration