Quotes about Effort

It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

A good relationship is a good relationship because the people in the relationship never quit working on the relationship.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you an excuse for being lazy, the other one is probably right.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

Can your wealth or all your mighty effort keep you from distress?

like men wielding axes in a thicket of trees

unable to fill the hands of the reaper, or the arms of the binder of sheaves.