Quotes About Effort

the other?" I tried using the new whatchamacallit

The now familiar shovel

In desperation I started jumping up and down, hitting my head against the ceiling, trying to jolt myself awake. "WAKEUPWAKEUPWAKEUP!

When he says we're forgiven, let's unload the guilt. When he says we're valuable, let's believe him. . . . When he says we're provided for, let's stop worrying. God's efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it's worth every effort, for this is the joy of God.

For faith with no effort is no faith at all.

do the best, you put a smile on God's face. What could be better than that?

The word race is from the Greek agon, from which we get the word agony.

greater than its cost. Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.

You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Conscious effort inhibits and 'jams' the automatic creative mechanism.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today

Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

One did one's work against a steady barrage of demands, of people

Nothing will work unless you do.

Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.

There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.

You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for

Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.