Quotes about Effort
When I try to be patient on my own, my patience is forced and short-lived. It is obvious to everyone that I am desperately trying to be patient.
— Mother Angelica
To see that hard work paying off is very good.
— Angelique Kerber
You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.
— Publilius Syrus
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
— Publilius Syrus
Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
— Publilius Syrus
Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can't wait for a feeling to motivate you.
— Joyce Meyer
If you don't do your part, don't blame God.
— Billy Sunday
Much effort, much prosperity.
— Euripides
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
— Zig Ziglar
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson