Quotes about Effort

You can't leave footprints in the sands of time while sitting down.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything

All great acheivements require time.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!

Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

We have many reasons to hope for great happiness, but … we have to earn it. And that's something you can't achieve by taking the easy way out. Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I've learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.

It was about tragedy transformed over the years into joy. It was about the beauty of sheer effort. I

Even though you know that your manuscript is not perfect and you'd hoped for so much more, but if you also know that there is simply no more steam in the pressure cooker and that it's the very best you can do for now—well? I think this means that you are done.

My elderly priest friend Terry says, "Don't try harder—resist less.