Quotes about Effort
If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
— DL Moody
Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.
— Jonathan Edwards
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
— Ellen White
Man, I'm not trying to be important; I just go out and play.
— Carmelo Anthony
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
— Albert Camus
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
— Muhammad Ali
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good...Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
— CS Lewis
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man is worked on by what he works on.
— Frederick Douglass
When you play, play hard when you work, don't play at all.
— Theodore Roosevelt
It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.
— Theodore Roosevelt