Quotes about Striving

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, " I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.

God helps him who strives hard.

If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something.

greatness of that with which he strove. For he who strove with the world became great by overcoming the world, and he who strove with himself became great by overcoming himself, but he who strove with God became greater than all.

Infinite humiliation and grace, and then a striving born of gratitude — this is Christianity.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Thou didst thy best, that is success.

God does not use extraordinary striving. He uses extraordinary availability to reach the world with the message of his Kingdom.

Human beings are very unbalanced and prone to go off on tangents. In every area of life- with too great emphasis on one thing, leaving out another important thing altogether. None of us will ever be perfectly balanced in our spiritual lives, our intellectual lives, our emotional lives, our family lives, in relationships with other human beings, or in our business lives. BUT WE ARE CHALLENGED TO TRY, WITH THE HELP OF GOD. We are meant to live in the scriptures.