Quotes about Efforts
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
When you do what you love, the seemingly impossible becomes simply challenging, the laborious becomes purposeful resistance, the difficult loses its edge and is trampled by your progress.
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.