150 Continuous Effort Quotes

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Famous Continuous Effort Quotes

Consistency of effort over the long run is everything. — Angela Duckworth

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. - Robert Collier

Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. — Robert Collier

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. — James Whitcomb Riley

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. — Swami Vivekananda

Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. — Mark Twain

Persistent work triumphs. — Virgil

No great achievement is possible without persistent work. — Bertrand Russell

Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. - Tony Robbins

Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement. — Tony Robbins

Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance. — Mark Victor Hansen

The secret to getting results that last is to never stop making improvements. — James Clear

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you. — Og Mandino

Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years. — Marshall Goldsmith

Where there is an effort, there is a success. — Thai Proverbs

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. — Napoleon Hill

Short Continuous Effort Quotes

  • It is the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance and sweeps away all obstacles. — Claude M. Bristol
  • Success flourishes only in perseverance ceaseless, restless perseverance. — Manfred von Richthofen
  • Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. — W. Clement Stone
  • If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. — Kano Jigoro
  • Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. — Jos
  • Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Keep building, steadily and consistently. — Changpeng Zhao
  • Success comes from a constant focus on renewal. — Gary L. Tooker
  • Sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure. — Donald Trump
  • Full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi

Continuous Effort Image Quotes

Continuous effort quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.

Maximum Effort Quotes

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden

One thing that I learned from judo... Maximum efficiency and minimum effort. — Ronda Rousey

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. — Eric Ries

Continuous effort quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort. — Bruce Lee

The lungs cannot be completely deflated at first without considerable effort. With perseverance, however, the desired results can be accomplished and with increasing power, gradually and progressively develop the lungs to their maximum capacity. — Joseph Pilates

we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else. — Bill Cosby

Continuous effort quote If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.
If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.

Just keep your head down and do your best. — Charlie Munger

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies. — Taylor Branch

What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect. — Damien Hirst

People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power. — Norman Vincent Peale

Make Time And Effort Quotes

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola

Too much choice has many underappreciated downsides that affect our health and happiness. Every choice you make requires cognitive effort, takes time and can potentially add to your stress load. Eliminating unnecessary choice from your life can be transformative. — Rangan Chatterjee

With EFFORT, talent becomes skill and, at the same time, effort makes skill productive. — Angela Duckworth

Continuous effort quote The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I wanted to die.
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life what I wanted to die.

At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only according to their own arbitrary rhythm. The notion that human caring, the effort to do better for people, might make a difference can seem hopelessly naive. But it isn't. — Atul Gawande

Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their best, give you more time, provide you with companionship, help you fulfill the desires of your heart and compound your vision and effort. — John C. Maxwell

My number one recommendations for part time grapplers is: no alcohol - no smoking - Follow the Gracie diet. The reason I say that is because smoking and alcohol put a lot of effort on your body. Your lungs. Your liver. Your stomach. These things will make you suffer, man. — Royce Gracie

Continuous effort quote When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.
When someone truly cares about you, they make an effort, not an excuse.

It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental, to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues. — Eve Ensler

Taking the child's point of view demands good will, time, and effort on the part of parents. The child is the clear beneficiary. Parents who make the effort to understand their children's point of view are likely to treat children fairly and in an age-appropriate manner. — David Elkind

Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds. — John W. Campbell

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization. — Hu Jintao

When You Make An Effort Quotes

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you. — Shauna Niequist

In a sense, you're always mythologizing your life; it's always an effort to make yourself epic. At least in fiction you can lie and sort of justify your delusion about your "epicness." But when you're writing a memoir, you're trying to make your life epic and it's not - nobody's life is. — Sherman Alexie

Continuous effort quote Evaluate your day based on your effort, not your results.
Evaluate your day based on your effort, not your results.

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort. — Jack White

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste. — Malcolm Forbes

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth. — Marianne Williamson

Continuous effort quote Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not. — Jimmy Carter

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200. — Gemma Arterton

Even in the old days, we'd make an effort. When I'd go out to score on Eighth Avenue, I'd get my junk and a chocolate doughnut. But I'd always also pick up one of those pita-pocket health food sandwiches. You know, something really good for me. — Steven Tyler

I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them. — Maria Schell

Continuous Development Quotes

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them. — John C. Maxwell

Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace — Kofi Annan

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. — Confucius

Continuous effort quote Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations. — Kofi Annan

I believe in nurturing creativity and offering a haven for creators, enabling them to develop their ideas to the fullest. With more and more talented creators being drawn to Cirque in an environment that fulfills them, these are ideal to continue developing great new shows. — Guy Laliberte

Further diversifying our economy is a key strategic focus of our future plans. It is therefore necessary to accelerate economic development efforts to continue building a leading global economy, to enhance our competitiveness and achieve the highest global rankings. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Continuous effort quote We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin
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.

Democracy in Yemen did not stop, instead it is in a continuous development, there is no other way to follow rather than democracy, it is our national way for building up our country, it was not imposed on us by others. — Ali A. Saleh

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. — Aldous Huxley

Our pride in our people is infinite. Equally, we deeply appreciate the valued role of our residents, who consider this country their second home. And their continued contributions in building and developing the UAE since its inception. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function. — Daniel J. Siegel

Continuous Improvement Quotes

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. - Mark Twain

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection. — Mark Twain

I want to keep improving, continue to help my teammates improve, make my teammates look good. Continue bringing something new to the game, never getting completely content and always trying to get better. — Alex Morgan

...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming

Continuous effort quote Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same. — Bill Belichick

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously. — Bill Gates

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. - Robin Sharma

Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results. — Robin Sharma

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. - Shigeo Shingo

The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize. — Shigeo Shingo

The message of the Kaizen strategy is that not a day should go by without some kind of improvement being made somewhere in the company. — Masaaki Imai

Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day. — Brian Tracy

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. — Jim Rohn

Continuous Change Quotes

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou

For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. — W. Somerset Maugham

Continuous effort quote It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory.

Pain is a sensation produced by something contrary to the course of nature and this sensation is set up by one of two circumstances: either a very sudden change of the temperament (or the bad effect of a contrary temperament) or a solution of continuity. — Avicenna

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. — Aleister Crowley

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Must you continue to be your own cross? No matter which way God leads you, you change everything into bitterness by constantly brooding over everything. For the love of God, replace all this self-scrutiny with a pure and simple glance at God's goodness. — Jane Frances de Chantal

Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt. — Salvador Minuchin

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself. — Chico Xavier

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving. — Jake Paul

Constant Improvement Quotes

Success isn't owned. It's leased and rent is due every day. — J. J. Watt

Success isn't owned - it's leased. And rent is due every day. Every single day, someone's coming for your job. Someone's coming for your greatness. If you're the greatest, someone wants to be the greatest, and so if you're not constantly improving your game, somebody else is. — J. J. Watt

We spent a lot of time trying to understand what GPT-4 is capable of. Getting it out in the world is how we learn. We’re constantly making updates, include a bunch of improvements, so that the model is much more scalable to whatever personality or sort of mode you want it to be in. — Greg Brockman

The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life - be it our working life, our social life, or our home life - deserves to be constantly improved. — Masaaki Imai

It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die. — Lewis Howes

Success is a work in progress. It’s not about achieving a goal, it’s about constantly improving and pushing boundaries. — Jensen Huang

The current situation really took us by surprise, but we don’t have control over events like these. You can waste a lot of energy trying to control events, but that’s not a useful activity. What we can do is constantly improve our ability to respond to surprising events. — Dan Sullivan

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change. — Thomas J. Peters

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be. — Queen Latifah

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. — Tom Peters

Continuous Learning Quotes

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. — Paulo Freire

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing. — Eartha Kitt

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight. — Bayard Rustin

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. — Denis Waitley

Life is continued work. It's constant learning. The whole concept of retirement I don't even buy into. We should constantly be working. Maybe not physically working, but we could be spiritually, emotionally working toward bettering ourselves and bettering the lives of others around us. — Lauryn Hill

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future. — Peter Senge

All highly competent people continually search for ways to keep learning, growing, and improving. They do that by asking WHY. After all, the person who knows HOW will always have a job, but the person who knows WHY will always be the boss. — Benjamin Franklin

Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. — Peter Senge

To me, an influencer must embody 2 critical skills, continuous learning and storytelling. — Jay Shetty

Just as champion athletes learn and continuously improve their skills, so do champion negotiators. — William Ury

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More Continuous Effort Quotes

One living daily in the Way carries their head low and their eyes high; reserved in speech and possessing a kind heart, they steadfastly continue in their training efforts. — Mas Oyama

If at times my productions do not express the conventionally beautiful, there is always an effort to express the universal beauty of man's continuous struggle to lift his social position and to add dimension to his spiritual being. — Jacob Lawrence

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required. — Hyman Rickover

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land - American Indians - and the political owner of the land - American Whites. Guilt and accusations cannot continue to revolve in a vacuum without some effort at reaching a solution. — Vine Deloria Jr.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer

A noble and God-like character is not a thing of favor or chance, but is the natural result of continued effort in right thinking, the effect of long-cherished association with God-like thoughts. — James Allen

Friends from the press, China needs to learn more about the world, and the world also needs to learn more about China. I hope you will continue to make more efforts and contributions to deepening the mutual understanding between China and the countries of the world. — Xi Jinping

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help. — Mohamed Al-Fayed

The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction. — Anthony Giddens

To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure. — Will Tuttle

The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile. — Boniface Wimmer

We are resolved that the method of consultation shall be the method adopted to deal with any other questions that may concern our two countries, and we are determined to continue our efforts to remove possible sources of difference, and thus to contribute to assure the peace of Europe. — Neville Chamberlain

In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love. — Alexis Carrel

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort. — Bruce Lee

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. — Nadine Gordimer

In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years. — Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God. — Sheila Walsh

You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their old beliefs continue to have the same experiences. It takes effort and commitment to break old patterns — Bob Proctor

Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime. — Louis C. K.

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. — Elbert Hubbard

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. — George Eliot

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire. — Zig Ziglar

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated. — Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him. — Norman Vincent Peale

Lady Luck smiles on those who continue their efforts — Jim Rogers

My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t. — James Salter

Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene. — Chalmers Johnson

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media. — Eduardo Galeano

The essential role of the environment is still marginal in discussions about poverty. While we continue to debate these initiatives, environmental degradation, including the loss of biodiversity and topsoil, accelerates, causing development efforts to falter. — Wangari Maathai

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking. — Juan Manuel Santos

The men of sense, the idols of the shallow, are very inferior to the men of passions. It is the strong passions which, rescuing us from sloth, impart to us that continuous and earnest attention necessary to great intellectual efforts. — Claude Adrien Helvetius

However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort. — Isaac Asimov

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover. — Herbert Hoover

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it. — Peter Piot

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all. — George Pataki

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours. — Paul Gillmor

The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump. — Rush Limbaugh

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated. — Kofi Annan

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government. — Stafford Cripps

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