Quotes about Effort
The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort.
— Andrew Murray
The master judges by the result, but our Father judges by the effort. Failure does not always mean fault. He knows how much things cost, and weighs them where others only measure.
— Andrew Murray
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
— Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
— Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
— Samuel Johnson
Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything. It is much easier to steal one hundred pounds than to get it by labour or any other way.
— Samuel Johnson
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned
— John Calvin
Don't think you can relax yourself to happiness. Happiness comes as a result of doing.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.
— Henry Ford
The gifts we are given in life require the best of us, not merely our best intentions.
— Les Brown
You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for
— Maya Angelou