Quotes About Effort

I know the answer to improving Jess's condition doesn't lay in tears the answer is in sweat.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

Resolved: To live with all my might while I do live." And

If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.

Tasks don't have to be high-impact to be worthy of high effort. Most things we do in any given day are relatively low impact. The cumulative impact of thousands of low-impact test is huge. These tasks can be transposed into worship.

terms are an effort to describe the whole of biblical revelation. They are an effort to say yes to all of the Bible and not silence any of it. They are a way to say yes to the universal, saving will of 1 Timothy 2:4 and yes to the individual unconditional election of Romans 9:6

Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.

So when you hold the "Institutes" of John Calvin in your hand, remember that theology, for John Calvin, was forged in the furnace of burning flesh, and that Calvin could not sit idly by without some effort to vindicate the faithful and the God for whom they suffered. I think we would, perhaps, do our theology better today if more were at stake in what we said.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.

Paul worked hard. He did not say that God's grace made his work unnecessary. He said God's grace made his work possible.

The idioms also revealed that Chinese shared a barnyard bawdiness with American English. My favorite was "taking off your pants to fart"—wasted effort.

Communication works for those who work at it.

El esfuerzo que hemos dedicado a intentar que suceda nos ha dejado agotados mental y emocionalmente

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.

Money is simply the symbolic representation of human energy."

Money is whatever symbol we decide upon to represent human energy for an item or service."

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

In 1979, certain leaders within the Southern Baptist Convention began a concerted effort to address what they saw as a theological drift in some of that denomination's seminaries and agencies. Over a fifteen-year period, they were able to bring about a remarkable change in the direction of those seminaries and agencies, such that one writer has called it "the Baptist Reformation."-

I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history.