Quotes about Effort
The law of nature is: Do the thing, and you shall have the power, but they who do not the thing have not the power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The energy of the mind is commensurate with the work to be done.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
This gift cannot be worked for, earned, or achieved. It's not dependent on our merit or effort but solely on Christ's generous sacrifice on our behalf.
— Randy Alcorn
Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
— Joseph Heller
kid I wanted apple cheeks someday, and I decided to work at it until I got them, and by God, I did work at it until I got them, and that's how I did it, with crab apples in my cheeks
— Joseph Heller
Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.
— Joyce Meyer
Do what you don't want to do to get what you want to get.
— Joyce Meyer