Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
—Aristotle
Nothing weakens a person more than hope in something other than his own effort to find salvation and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found -given- by experience.
—Carl Jung
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
Effort is needed for every act of self-restraint, but the restraint of your tongue requires the most effort. It’s also the most necessary.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
—Thomas Edison
Apply yourself both now and in the next life.
Without effort, you cannot be prosperous.
Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
—Plato
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
—Aristotle
The very greatness of God makes it impossible for us by our own efforts ever to arrive at God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
[Faith] involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge.
—J. Gresham Machen
There’s no kind of external organization of the world, no sort of external laws and regulations that can change the life of the world; only the inner effort of each individual can.
—Leo Tolstoy
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Changes in our lives always come about through changes in our thoughts. Therefore effort to change our thoughts is far more important than the effort we exert to change our physical lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
By making our enemy small, mean, contemptible, comical, we take a roundabout route to getting for ourselves the enjoyment of vanquishing him, which the third person – who has gone to no effort – endorses with his laughter.
—Sigmund Freud