Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you fail, it means you were too lazy.
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
Get maximum effect from minimum effort.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you.
Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it.
Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.
I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
Activity leads to productivity.