Quotes about Effort
I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.
— Alice Walker
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
— St. Augustine
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
— Francis de Sales
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
— Saint Jerome
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett
Exercise is labor without weariness.
— Samuel Johnson
What is written without effort in general is read without pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
— Samuel Johnson
What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
You must have taken great pains, sir; you could not naturally been so very stupid.
— Samuel Johnson
I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.
— Samuel Rutherford