Effort Quotes

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