A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
John Capuzzi
The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.
Nellie Hershey Tullis
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird
The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips
All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.
Unknown
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
Garth Henrichs
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi
Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Napoleon Hill
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana
Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin
Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
A winning effort begins with preparation.
Joe Gibbs
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The footprint of the owner is the best manure.
English Proverb
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller
Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne
The reward of eternal life requires effort.
Thomas S. Monson
Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher
I really didn’t try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Justin Timberlake
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Maximilien Robespierre
Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.
Bill Toomey
In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power.
Carroll O’Connor
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you’ll be.
Jason Schwartzman
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille
We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Hugh Mackay
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin
Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work hard to get better.
Paul Coffey
Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Edwin H. Stuart
There’s no ceiling on effort!
Harvey C. Fruehauf
Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Ann Frank
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cordes
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