Quotes About Effort

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

In Lebensfluten, im Tatensturm Wall ich auf und ab, Wehe hin und her! Geburt und Grab, Ein ewiges Meer, Ein wechselndes Wehen, Ein glühend Leben, So schaff ich am laufenden Webstuhl der Zeit Und wirke der Gottheit lebendiges Kleid.

Whosoever puts himself in constant striving, him we can redeem.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

You must be a leader, as a member of this Church, in those causes for which this Church stands. Do not let fear overcome your efforts...The adversary of all truth would put into your heart a reluctance to make an effort. Cast that fear aside and be valiant in the cause of truth and righteousness and faith. If you now decide that this will become the pattern of your life, you will not have to make that decision again.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.

You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.

That which comes easily departs easily. That which comes of struggle remains.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

Do the best you can. But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.

I am an optimist! What a wonderful time it is to be alive, here at the turn of a milestone century! With that frame of reference, my plea is that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life, we "accentuate the positive." I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment and endorse virtue and effort.

I have been quoted as saying, 'Do the best you can.' But I want to emphasize that it be the very best. We are too prone to be satisfied with mediocre performance. We are capable of doing so much better.

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love for comfort and ease, and in the very process of effort and struggle, even in our extremity, we shall become better acquainted with our God." — Gordon B. Hinckley

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.