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Effort

"Fifteen minutes a day devoted to one definite study will make one a master in a dozen years." (Edward Howard Griggs)

"There is only one thing which will really train the human mind and that is the voluntary use of the mind by the man himself. You may aid him, you may guide him, you may suggest to him, and above all you may inspire him; but the only thing worth having is that which he gets by his own exertions; and what he gets is proportionate to the effort he puts into it." (A. Lawrence Lowell)

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so may separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. (William James, Talks to Teachers)

When you stop trying, you stop growing. Keep the facility of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. (William James)

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