effort

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it true.

You may have to work for it, however.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

It is the truth that frees, not your effort to be free.

There is no greater miracle
Than our conscious efforts
To become good human beings.

At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

Only if you dive for pearls shall you find one.

With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort, and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.