Quotes About Effort

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

Worry is a direct consequence of relying on your own efforts.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come.

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

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

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

True love is a process. True love requires personal action.

A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.

Self Effort (Purushartha) is that which will bear fruits, without fail.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.

Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.