217 Effort Quotes to Ignite Your Motivation and Achieve Success

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Famous Effort Quotes

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it. — Carol S. Dweck

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. — Jos

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. — Jose Ortega y Gasset

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

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

Much effort, much prosperity. — Euripides

The greater the effort, the greater the glory. - Pierre Corneille

The greater the effort, the greater the glory. — Pierre Corneille

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. — Napoleon Hill

Full effort is full victory. — Mahatma Gandhi

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. — James Allen

If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. - Kano Jigoro

If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. — Kano Jigoro

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort. — Theodore Roosevelt

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. - Ernest Shackleton

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. — Ernest Shackleton

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. — Carol S. Dweck

When it comes to how we fare in the marathon of life, effort counts tremendously. — Angela Duckworth

Short Effort Quotes

  • Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day-in and day-out. — Robert Collier
  • Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. — Napoleon Hill
  • Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. — John F. Kennedy
  • Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and reevaluation. — Mark Twain
  • The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
  • The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum
  • Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. — Anonymous
  • To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make. — Sigmund Freud
  • Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. — Arnold Palmer
  • The person who can drive themself further once the effort gets painful, is the one who will win. — Roger Bannister

Effort Image Quotes

Effort quote If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.
If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. - Napoleon Hill quote

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. — Napoleon Hill

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. - John Ruskin quote

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. — John Ruskin

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. - Bruce Lee quote

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. — Bruce Lee

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. - Jim Rohn quote

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. — Jim Rohn

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. - Denis Waitley quote

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. — Denis Waitley

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. - Henry Allen Ironside quote

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation. — Henry Allen Ironside

Talk without effort is nothing. - Maria W. Stewart quote

Talk without effort is nothing. — Maria W. Stewart

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach - Marguerite de Navarre quote

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach — Marguerite de Navarre

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. - George Polya quote

Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort. — George Polya

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.

Team Effort Quotes

I have always believed that you win as part of a team effort. I've learned that if everybody does a little bit, it adds up to a lot. — Jim Harbaugh

Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. — Vince Lombardi

People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge. — Jim Harbaugh

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

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

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. — Jim Stovall

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. — Babe Ruth

Effort quote Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice. — Douglas B. Reeves

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. — Michael Winner

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

Celebrate the successes and milestones along the way. Recognize and appreciate the efforts of your team. — Michael Abrashoff

Relationship Effort Quotes

You can't save a relationship unless both people are equally invested. It takes a joint effort to make it work. One person trying will never be enough. — Tony Gaskins

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. — Jim Rohn

Don’t allow the grass to grow on the path of friendship. — American Proverbs

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.

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world. — Oscar Hammerstein II

The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition. — Jacque Fresco

The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social, economic,and political relationships and the eradication of other forms of injustices and oppression. — Gene Sharp

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

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication. — Max De Pree

On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work. — Mark Driscoll

The moment love becomes a relationship, it becomes a bondage, because there are expectations and there are demands and there are frustrations, and an effort from both sides to dominate. It becomes a struggle for power. — Osho

Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.' — Jimmy Fallon

Making Effort Quotes

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

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

It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the greatest love, who make the boldest efforts to overcome themselves, and are not immediately apprehensive about tripping. — Saint Francis de Sales

Effort quote Do what you can, with what you have, where you are
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are

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

I make money from touring and selling merchandise, and I honestly believe if you put effort into something and you execute properly, you don't necessarily have to go through the traditional ways. — Chance the Rapper

Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

Effort quote Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is
Even if you can't physically see the result in front of you right now, every single effort you do is changing your body from the inside. Never get discouraged.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated. — Katharine Hepburn

I think that Texas is forever ruined unless the citizens make a manly, energetic effort to save themselves from anarchy and confusion, which are the worst of all evils. Let us march like a band of brothers. — William B. Travis

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula. — Klemens Von Metternich

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it. — Jeremy Bentham

One Sided Effort Quotes

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'. — George Orwell

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other. — Walter Isaacson

Effort quote Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and Effort. And we control both.
Success at anything will always come down to this: Focus and Effort. And we control both.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it. — Richard P. Feynman

Once such emotional engagement has been created - demand will always follow - yet one could say the "side product of your effort is demand" the primary purpose is to create love. — Martin Lindstrom

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives. — Oprah Winfrey

Effort quote Theres only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.
Theres only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around. — Jodi Picoult

Lack Of Effort Quotes

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. — Kobe Bryant

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

Effort quote Always make a total effort. Even when the odds are against you.
Always make a total effort. Even when the odds are against you.

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth. — Mary Church Terrell

I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it - and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor. — Niels Henrik Abel

For most people, lack of consistent, persistent effort is the biggest obstacle. — Edgar Cayce

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. — Heston Blumenthal

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort. — Michael Jordan

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity. — Douglas Cardinal

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment. — Maya Angelou

Appreciate Effort Quotes

Appreciation of works of art requires organized effort and systematic study. Art appreciation can no more be absorbed by aimless wandering in galleries than can surgery be learned by casual visits to a hospital. — Albert C. Barnes

Growing up, it was tough to balance, but looking back I appreciate my parents' efforts to make sure I was well-rounded. — P. K. Subban

Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated. — Matt Bomer

Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts. — Lilian Katz

One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates. — Brian Tracy

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. — Brian Tracy

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. — Sayings

So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?" I teased, trying to lighten the mood. He smiled swiftly, seeming to appreciate my effort. "Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin. — Stephenie Meyer

Goals should be difficult to achieve because those achieved with little effort are seldom appreciated, give little personal satisfaction, and are often not very worthwhile. There is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. — John Wooden

I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work — Dalai Lama

Simple Effort Quotes

We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. — Mike Rounds

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. — Isadora Duncan

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’ — Haile Selassie

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. — Elizabeth Edwards

Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve. — Noam Chomsky

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised. — Bryant H. McGill

The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity. — Thomas Merton

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario. — Dorothy Parker

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one. — Leon Jouhaux

Work Effort Quotes

Success is a combination of effort, talent and hard work. There's got to be hard work and mental toughness. It's not just one thing that gets you there it's an accumulation of things — Brock Lesnar

I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it. — Branch Warren

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. - J. Paul Getty

I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

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

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. — James Baldwin

When people say God blessed me with a beautiful jump shot, it really pisses me off. I tell those people, 'Don't undermine the work I've put in every day.' Not some days. Every day. — Ray Allen

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. — James Allen

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so. — Martin Delany

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. — Matthieu Ricard

No Effort Quotes

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. — John Dewey

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama

Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter. — Ida B. Wells

If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art. — Jose Limon

If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. — Monty Oum

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all. — Ayrton Senna

The single biggest mistake that most beginners make is putting 100% of their effort into the positive (concentric) part of the rep, while paying no attention to the negative (eccentric) segment — Dorian Yates

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. — Walter Camp

Time And Effort Quotes

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

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk don't work. Handle your business. Measure your efforts by results. Focus your time, energy, and activity on mastering and executing a plan. — Les Brown

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. — Edward O. Wilson

The more extreme the opening positions and the smaller the concessions, the more time and effort it will take to discover whether or not agreement is possible. — William Ury

Your phone needs a recharge every night. Your laptop needs to recharge. Everything needs to recharge. Are you giving yourself space, time, and effort to recharge? — Jay Shetty

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

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. — David Viscott

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity. — Anne Graham Lotz

The Grand Slam Offer only becomes valuable once the prospect perceives the increase in likelihood of achievement, perceives the decrease in time delay, and perceives the decrease in effort and sacrifice. — Alex Hormozi

Google doesn’t care how much time and effort you put into your content. They care about the user experience. — Brian Dean

Effort And Success Quotes

My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings

We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability and the admission of our own weakness. — Henri Nouwen

Every single success you experience is a combination of two things: your effort and Allah's help. When you don't put in enough effort, Allah does not give His barakah. And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also, is Allah's barakah. — Nouman Ali Khan

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. — Ernest Thompson Seton

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. - Patanjali

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere. — Patanjali

Success isn’t the same as talent. The world is full of incredibly talented people who never succeed at anything. They show up, do what they do, and if it doesn’t work out, they blame everyone else because they believe talent should be enough. — Tim Grover

The more you pay the price the more you improve. The more you go above and beyond the more you lead. The more you overdeliver on your promises the more you do things others aren't willing to do, you eventually expect success. It's no longer a question. It's inevitable. — Patrick Bet-David

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. — Elbert Hubbard

Success is not guaranteed, but effort is. Give your best in everything you do and the rest will follow. — Steven Bartlett

These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts. — Louis Pasteur

Give Effort Quotes

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. — Erich Fromm

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. — Jane Addams

Give credit where credit is due: simply said, if you want loyalty and best effort, you must be thoughtful. — Estee Lauder

Kindness is as easy—and as hard—as this: genuinely wanting something good for someone else, thinking about what would benefit them, and putting effort into giving them that benefit. — Jay Shetty

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. — Daisaku Ikeda

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. — Thomas Becket

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. — Calvin Coolidge

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score. — Tim Tebow

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that’s all you can do. — Kawhi Leonard

In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set. — T. Harv Eker

Make An Effort Quotes

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay. — John Spence

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. — Fran Lebowitz

The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up. — Chris Van Allsburg

You must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine. — Miguel de Cervantes

For 50 years bike racers have been taking stimulants. Obviously we can do without them in a race, but then we will pedal 15 miles an hour (instead of 25). Since we are constantly asked to go faster and to make even greater efforts, we are obliged to take stimulants — Jacques Anquetil

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. — Christopher Fry

First, we need to make all-out efforts to fight COVID-19. To emerge from the shadow of the pandemic and achieve steady economic recovery at an early date is the most pressing task for us. — Xi Jinping

Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom. — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

When we make an effort to include things we love in our everyday lives the everyday lives the benefits are tenfold; we are happier, healthier, more present, and more resilient to stress. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

Effort And Hard Work Quotes

The farmer has patience and trusts the process. He just has the faith and deep understanding that through his daily efforts, the harvest will come.And then one day, almost out of nowhere, it does. — Robin Sharma

With hard work and effort, you can achieve anything. — Antoine Griezmann

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

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top. — Peter Vidmar

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. — Sidney Phillips

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. — Theodore Roosevelt

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. — Paul J. Meyer

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before. — Shelby Steele

My three keys to success: One, work hard. Two, be your own person. And three, have a passion for what you're doing. — Juli Inkster

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. — William James

Great Effort Quotes

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain. — Taiichi Ohno

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers. — Magic Johnson

I think that most people underestimate the amount of effort that it takes to go from good to great, so they have this second voice that criticizes everything they do. — Alex Hormozi

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. - Warren Buffett

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. — Warren Buffett

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses. — Nelson Mandela

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender. — Bill Johnson

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort. — Duffy Daugherty

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game. — Benjamin Cardozo

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. — Carlos Castaneda

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More Effort Quotes

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. — Og Mandino

The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. — Carol S. Dweck

I'm not the sort of person who poses in their underwear. I hate the red carpet. I prefer the green grass. After the games the highlights show mostly the goals, scoring chances, assists. The spectator tends not to remember that as a goalkeeper I make difficult saves at great risk and start moves with my efforts. — Manuel Neuer

If I had been literate, I wouldn't have sold drugs. I just wanted a job. I would have worked at McDonald's. And I would have put the same effort into the fries and mopping the floor that I would have put into drugs. I'm the kind of person that always wants to do a job the best I can. I don't believe in half-doing jobs. — Rick Ross

Each training session I'm getting better and better. I have no other duties now, no worries, it's all about training, eating and sleeping. I have a lot more time and can put a lot more effort into training. I'm feeling better every day. As long as I'm feeling myself I'm definitely in no doubt I can go to the Olympics and win. — Usain Bolt

Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because there is always something you can improve. [Y]ou have to put in a lot of sacrifice and effort for sometimes little reward but you have to know that, if you put in the right effort, the reward will come. — Roger Federer

We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it. — Wendell Berry

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