126 Efforts Quotes

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Famous Efforts 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. — Anonymous

Short Efforts Quotes

  • 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
  • Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. — Napoleon Hill
  • If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. — Kano Jigoro
  • The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere. — Fernando Pessoa
  • Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. — John Ruskin
  • Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. — Ernest Shackleton
  • I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort. — J. Paul Getty

Efforts Image Quotes

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

Efforts quote If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.
If the feelings are mutual, the effort will be equal.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. - Napoleon Hill quote

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Efforts 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.

Don't Give Effort Quotes

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

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

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

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

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up. — Amby Burfoot

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it. — John Wooden

There's no "I" on the football field. We have a total commitment to each other when we're out there. There is no doubt. It doesn't matter. The wins and losses of the game don't resonate with us. What resonates with us is "how much effort would you give for the man next to you." — Ray Lewis

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

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall. — Anna Benson

The only way you can have it all is by delegating all the running of the home to other people - which I don't ever want to do... So you do it yourself, and it takes time and energy and effort. And if you give it the time, it's profoundly enjoyable. — Emma Thompson

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed. — Dan Simmons

I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her. — Kevin Williamson

Give 100 Percent Effort Quotes

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

Practice the 101 Percent Principle. Whenever possible, find the 1 percent you do agree on in a difficult situation, and give it 100 percent of your effort. — John C. Maxwell

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport. — Shawn Tompkins

Efforts 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.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now. — John Wooden

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

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

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

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

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

When There Is No Effort Quotes

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease. — Marc Benioff

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. — Bruce Lee

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted. There are no one-man teams—either by definition or natural law. Success is a cooperative effort; it’s dependent upon those who stand beside you. — Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

Efforts 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.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. — Tammy Bruce

In writing novels, you have to believe in yourself or there would be no way to sustain it. But you also have to give good evidence regularly for having that faith in self-either with quality goods or with, at least, "good efforts." Working hard will do when inspiration is not forthcoming. — Rachel Kushner

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. — Helen Schucman

Efforts 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.

When Zen masters say `effortlessness` they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need of any effort; now you can be relaxed and at ease, it will grow on its own accord. It will bring much foliage, and many flowers, and many blessings. — Osho

Make An 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

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

Efforts 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.

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

Efforts 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.

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

Great Effort Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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More Efforts 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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