Quotes About Effort

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision; a complex of emotions; raw experience. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort.

I have no talent, no gift. I have the panting ardor of a workhorse. Yet in time even a workhorse wears out.

A library is a mausoleum: books of the dead. And so many. And so many secrets lost to him forever. Hadn't time for it all and if he couldn't do it all then there was no point in doing any of it. For such an effort would be like drawing a single breath in the knowledge that you would not draw another. You were fated to suffocate, to die. You were fated to become extinct.

What a barbaric way to rise into the air, hauling your own carcass up inches at a time.

For such an effort would be like drawing a single breath in the knowledge that you would not draw another. You were fated to suffocate, to die. You were fated to become extinct.

Fucking macramé knots were maybe harder than they looked.

Labor was the right word for it. You surely do labor. Like pushing a wagon loaded with cement blocks uphill, three wheels stuck. Grunting, sweating, straining like a sow to give birth as it's called.

Nothing is more lonely than fucking 'good works.

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.

If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed a hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." —Elbert Hubbard

When we do what we can do, God steps in and does what we can't.

Philippians 4:13 does not say we can do anything we want to do because we are strong enough, smart enough, or hardworking enough. No, in fact, it leaves no room at all for human effort or striving of any kind. The secret to being able to do what we need to do is realizing that we cannot do it alone; we can only do it in Christ.

Thomas Edison said, "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."1

A person is not a failure because she tried some things that did not work out. She fails only when she stops trying.

Muchas personas tienen talento pero no se molestan en formar buenos hábitos. No se disciplinan a sí mismas para hacer lo que saben que deberían hacer, sino en cambio esperan a ser movidas por alguna fuerza exterior.

There are thousands upon thousands of thoughts presented to us every day. The mind has to be renewed to follow after the Spirit and not the flesh. Our carnal (worldly, fleshly) minds have had so much practice operating freely that we surely don't have to use any effort to think wrong thoughts.

person will get out of the word what he is willing to put into it.

Whatever we gain by the works of our own flesh, we will have to maintain the same way we gained it.

El gran carácter no se desarrolla mediante la facilidad y la conveniencia, sino mediante hacer AHORA lo que hay que hacer a pesar de lo difícil que sea.

ONCE YOU ARRIVE AT THE TOP, YOU STILL NEED TO KEEP DOING THE THING THAT GOT YOU THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE!

If you will do what you can do, God will do what you cannot do.