Quotes About Effort

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. • King Lear 1.4

You work small miracles every day.

Since the knowledge is available, why try to struggle along without it? The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Effort first, harvest second.

We all fail. But it is not failing that hurts. What hurts is knowing that you didn't give your best.

You give your best because that's the only way to enjoy your work.

What they say behind my back is none of my business, but I come back here and I know when I turn my light off at night I did my best.

We ask God to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God goes before us.

Do not confuse work and fruit. There may be a good deal of work for Christians that is not the fruit of the Heavenly Vine.

A machine can do work; only life can bear fruit. A law can compel work; only love can spontaneously bring forth fruit. Work implies effort and labor; the essential idea of fruit is that it is the silent, natural, restful produce of our inner life.

Do you not begin to see, my reader, that there are two kinds of warfare? The first is when we seek to conquer prayerlessness in our own strength. In that case, my advice to you is to give over your restlessness and effort; fall helpless at the feet of the Lord Jesus. He will speak the word, and your soul will live.

but God must send the power. The man works in his own will, and God must give the grace—the one reason why God often gives so little grace and so little success. But let us all take our place before God, and

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.

The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.

What made it happen? What made it not happen? Thinking of a cure, a week away from the city, a dinner party with other geniuses, a new rug, a new shirt, a new way to hold him in bed, and failing and failing and somehow, at random, succeeding. Was it worth it?

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

Life itself seemed so alarmingly exigent, to require so much of the self. It was too difficult to remember and think and express and understand - all things I needed to be able to do to talk. To keep my face animated at the same time was insult added to injury. It was like trying to cook and roller-skate and sing and type all at once.

I could not bring myself to believe in any love enough to imagine that the loss of me would be noticed, but I knew how sad it would be for him to have worked so hard at saving me and not to have succeeded

If it [talent] isn't strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it's not worth much.

Grace is not a shortcut around our effort; it is the divine blessing on efforts that are undertaken in dependence and trust on God.

Work is the fruitful transformation of the world through human effort and skill, in ways that serve our shared human needs and give glory to God.

If it doesn't hurt, it doesn't count!

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work,' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do.

i suppose i have a really loose interpretation of work, because i think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. the machinery is always going. even when you sleep