Quotes about Effort

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.

You have to work to keep love alive; you have to protect it and maintain it, just like you would a delicate flower.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.

Much effort, much prosperity.

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.

If you work, you always get your reward in the end.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.