Quotes About Effort

Intellectual achievements are the result of thought con- secrated to the search for knowledge or for the beauti- ful and true in nature. Such achievements may some- times be connected with vanity and ambition, but they are not the outcome of those characteristics. They are the natural outgrowth of long and arduous effort, and of pure and unselfish thoughts.

Achievement of any kind is the crown of effort, the di- adem of thought. By the aid of self-control, resolution, purity, righteousness, and well-directed thought a man ascends. By the aid of animality, indolence, impurity, corruption, and confu- sion of thought a man descends. A man may rise to high success in the world, even to lofty attitudes in the spiritual realm, and again descend into weakness and wretchedness by allowing arrogant, selfish, and corrupt thoughts to take possession of him.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are re- sults. The strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Change is not. Gifts, powers, material, intel-lectual and spiritual possessions are the fruits of ef- fort. They are thoughts com- pleted, objectives accom- plished, visions realized.

that strength can only be developed by effort and practice

Don't accept that others know you better than you know yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

Let a man start in business without having in his mind a perfectly formed plan to systematically pursue and he will be incoherent in his efforts and will fail in his business operations.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.

In the spiritual as the material, nothing is done without labor, and the higher cannot be known until the lower is fulfilled.

A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.

A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favour or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts. An ignoble and bestial character, by the same process, is the result of the continued harbouring of grovelling thoughts.

Exert yourself ceaselessly in decreasing evil and accumulating good.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. VISIONS

A noble and Godlike character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with Godlike thoughts.

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless that weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.

Doing my best in any situation is all I can do. If I worry about it while I'm doing it, I won't do my best.

The muse, or the inspiration, does not just show up, it requires sweat as an offering.

Persistence creates luck.

The idea that we need to "pay our dues" is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap. You

Today I will try again. And tomorrow. And then the next day. If I don't get better, I will at least have fun trying. And what else is there in life but to play as much as possible?

Don't forget to always give extra. A simple effort will get you a customer for life.

If you practice and make your idea muscle sweat and get in good shape, then 250 million dollars will not even mean that much

the only way to have success is to build the foundation for it.