Quotes about Effort

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

The future is not a gift-it is an achievement.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for.

After an outburst, she would settle down and try to love him as reasonably as she could, making the best of his kindness, his rather detached and separate passion, his occasional and laborious essays at emotional intimacy, and finally his intelligence - that quick, comprehensive, ubiquitous intelligence that could understand everything, including emotions it could not feel and the instincts it took care not to be moved by.

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Discipline without direction is drudgery.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.