One key ingredient to success and winning in life is Effort. From most of our research (and life experiences), we’ve observed that the amount of effort and intensity one applies to a given task, goal, or vision; directly impacts the quality and swiftness of that goal’s completion.

Without a doubt, the effort is a critical factor in goal achievement. But more importantly, the effort is the key to unlocking our potential. As such, we want to help as many people as possible embrace such a philosophy by sharing some of the most powerful quotes on the effort we could find.

These effort quotes will be a reliable reminder of effort’s role in your success. In addition, they will help encourage you to unleash your untapped levels of effort. And when that happens, you will begin unlocking your potential, and all the success you deserve will start coming your way.

380 Quotes about Effort

Top 10 Effort Quotes

“You won’t fail unless you have made the effort to try. It is far better than doing nothing at all. It is still a failure when you remain stagnant.” – Jeffrey Lehman

“You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.” – Albert Camus

“You may think that other people are just plain lucky. The truth is, you do not see the effort they put in. Like everything else in this life, you must put in effort.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar

“What seems to motivate people has to do with the results of their own efforts and the feeling that they are contributing to the overall success of the enterprise.” – Kate Keenan

“Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo

“Walls don’t fall without effort.” – Neal Shusterman

“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Those who show lack of effort with themselves, will not be capable of making any extra effort for you.” – Christine Szymanski

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“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill

“Effort is the siamese twin of success.” – Shane Koyczan

“Effort is the Key to Unlocking Our Potential.”

“Effort is the extension of the will; without a will, without determination, there can be no effort.” – Byron Pulsifer

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” – Jose Ortega Y. Gasset

“Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life and in relationship with others makes all the difference.” – Marilyn Atkinson

“Effort is grossly underrated.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Effort is between you and you.” – Ray Lewis

“Effort is a two way thing. If someone wanted to put in effort, they would, so there’s no point chasing.”

“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy

“Effort – It’s a solo performance that only you can control.” – Author Unknown

Effort Quotes Love

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“You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.” – Amy Dickinson

“You may not be able to help whom you are attracted to, but you can choose to whom you love and how. That is to say that love is a commitment that your heart and your mind make. It is an active and ever-evolving process, a conscious choice that takes effort and maintenance.” – Niecy Nash

“Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people.” – Sharon Salzberg

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”

“When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.” – Deepak Chopra

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” – Robert Fulghum

“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

“When you start giving, instead of getting you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe…your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Through my friends I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it … which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.” – Lucy Grealy

“There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love – exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.” – Moira Weigel

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz

“The course of true love never did run smooth.” – William Shakespeare

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and the courage to accept the love in return.” – Maya Angelou

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.” – Brian Tracy

“Love is not really a mystery. It is a process like anything else. A process that requires trust, effort, focus, and commitment by two willing partners.” – Elizabeth Bourgeret

“Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.” – Carroll Bryant

“Love is a seed that has to be watered with effort and consistency. Lack thereof will cause the fire that once existed between two souls to burn out.” – Pierre Alex Jeanty

“Love is a lot like flowers. With enough effort and time, it can blossom into something beautiful and unforgettable. But with neglect and dispassion, it can die and be lost forever.” – Jocelyn Sanchez

“Love includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.” – Alan Watts

“It’s a humbling thing when you find someone to love. Even better if you’ve been waiting your whole life.” – George Clooney

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“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

“It also takes conscious effort and decision to choose to love.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney

“If you truly love someone, you will desire to make the effort to spend quality time with them to get to know them deeper.” – Robert Woeger

“I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.” – Rita Rudner

“Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.” – Dave Guerrero

“God is limitless in his love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.” – Marianne Williamson

“Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.” – C.G. Jung

“Do you really love me? means: Will you accept me in the process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human? Strong and vibrant some days, weak and frail on others?” – Angela Thomas

“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.” – Charles Dickens

“Be a reflection of what you’d like to see in others! If you want love, give love, if you want honesty, give honesty, if you want respect, give respect. You get in return, what you give!”

“If a family member has admitted their mistakes and is now making an effort to come back to you with renewed commitment and love, be fast to forgive.” – Matt Morris

“Acknowledge what you want, make an effort to achieve it without worrying about how old you are. When you have a dream, you do not feel your age and have more energy. If you absorbed in doing what you love, your age ceases to have any meaning. You know some people say, that if you want to keep your mind young, then you should use it.” – Sari Puhakka

“Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green

Team Effort Quotes

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“There’s not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beat me to the ball every play. That ain’t got nothing to do with talent, That’s just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else.” – Ray Lewis

“Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” – Vince Lombardi

“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 almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”

“Success is a matter of individual effort only to the extent that each person must decide, in his or her own mind, what is wanted.” – Napoleon Hill

“Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.”

“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

“We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale

“Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.” – Robert M. Hensel

“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Growing up is when you understand you get what you give, not what you’re given.” – Guy Browning

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” – Erich Fromm

“Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.” – Pat Riley

“Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.” – Jim Rohn

“Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James

“I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing

“Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.” – Vince Lombardi

“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Success in anything will always come down to this: focus & effort.” – Dwayne Johnson

“Give cheerfully and freely. It is the energy behind the giving that matters so do not give grudgingly. The law of cause and effect guarantees that you shall receive plenty for what you give.” – David Cameron Gikandi

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers

“As one makes an impartial study of successful people, one is drawn to inevitable conclusion that persistence, concentration of effort and definiteness of purpose are the major sources of their achievements.” – Napoleon Hill

“Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles

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

“Happiness can be measured by how much effort you gave and how much it has paid off then.”

“Happily ever after is not a fairytale. It’s a choice.” – Fawn Weaver

“Enthusiasm is the greatest life skill we can develop. What our world needs now are organized efforts teaching concepts and techniques for gaining greater human enthusiasm.” – Bob “Hubba Jubba” Moss

“Encouragement and faithfulness demonstrate the value of a friend. Be a friend, it’s worth the effort.” – Martin Murphy

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.”

“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.” – Epictetus

“Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.” – Heywood Hale Broun

“Confidence is not something that comes out of nowhere. It is the result of months and years of practice, constant work, effort, and determination.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

“Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.” – Denis Waitley

“Get maximum effect from minimum effort.” – Bruce Lee

“Full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

“The brain is one truly amazing organ, and the power it wields can propel you to greatness only if you put in the necessary effort.” – Annabelle Higgins

“Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything’s an effort – a good effort.” – Finn Jones

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.”

“Anyone can post inspirational quotes on social media. Anyone can read another motivational article. It takes effort to actual start something and follow through all the way.” – Martin Dasko

“Each man is the smith of his own fortune.” – Appius Claudius

“Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.” – Denis Waitley

“Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Continuous effort– not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill

“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.” – Elbert Hubbard

“All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden

“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

“The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.” – Albert Einstein

“Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.” – Jim Rohn

“A person’s name is important to them. Make an effort to learn people’s names so they’ll be more likely to respond to what you have to say.” – Andrea Plos

No Effort Quotes

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“Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings” – Rumi

“Stop putting in an effort into those who show no effort towards you. There’s only so much you can do before you’re wasting your energy and time.”

“Laziness requires no effort whereas work requires dedication and perseverance.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thus, it is important that we make an effort to focus on positive things in our life to offset that bias and maintain our inner peace.” – Thibaut Meurisse

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

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

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” – David Foster Wallace

“The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands to his full stature.” – Arnold Bennett

“This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.” – Zig Ziglar

“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” – Andrew Carnegie

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola

“The amount of effort you put in is the amount of results you end up with.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi

“There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.” – Marianne Williamson

“The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.” – Colin Powell

“The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar

“The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.”

“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

“Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.” – Joyce Meyer

“Good sales professionals are goal driven. They realize that in life results are rewarded, not efforts.” – Shiv Khera

“Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood, and tears and effort in the gym every day.” – Gabby Douglas

“Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.” – Minor Myers, Jr.

“Giving your special someone sincere compliments shows that you notice their efforts and strengths.” – Philip Vang

“One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.” – Dallas Willard

“I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.” – Nancy Reagan

“God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa

“The harder I work the more I live.” – George Bernard Shaw

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

“Once we learn how to decide and act, we’ll become efficient and productive with far less effort.” – Jeremy Lubremeyer

“Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Focusing your efforts on the people who are interested in you, and get along with you, makes life so much easier.” – Trevor Poulin

“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 A. Baldwin

“Finding your soul mate isn’t the hard part; staying together is.” – Neha Yazmin

“But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.” – Nikola Tesla

“Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That’s truly about the game, and in some ways that’s about life too.” – Michael Jordan

“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb

“I am grinding while your sleeping.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem

“Don’t expect front row seats if you’re giving nosebleed effort.” – Eric Thomas

“Doing the little things can make a big difference.” – Yogi Berra

“Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.” – Alan Cohen

“Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.” – Gary Vaynerchuk

“Failure is the hallmark of success it can be the starting point of new venture, such as when a baby learns to walk; it has to fall down a lot to learn the new skill. Each failure becomes a starting point for the next effort proving that failure is not failure.” – Destiny Madu

“Exerting all your efforts on one thing is the most important thing that you have to learn to be.” – Bogdan Ivanov

“Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.” – William Arthur Ward

“In our world, kindness motivates people to different levels of effort, and these works give birth to an expectation that on imagines will in some way benefit them in return.” – Gerald Campbell

“In order to have the willpower and motivation needed to be consistent with the amount of effort you exert for productivity, you must limit or eliminate counterproductive habits while enforcing new habits that help productivity.” – Mark Snyder

“And in putting effort, you double the value of the things that you do, it is going to be okay too.”

“An industrious dunce is often more successful in life than his learned neighbor.” – James Lendall Basford

“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” – Lydia M. Child

“Always make the needed effort to bring success into your reality.” – Jason Edward Shiffman

“If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” – Dave Weinbaum

“If you are not willing to be putting effort in, don’t expect it in return.”

“And the truth is that there is some satisfaction when you figure out that your effort worked out.”

“Don’t expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.” – Angela N. Blount

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arthur Robert Ashe

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.” – Helen Keller

“Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” – Lowell Thomas

“Also, be sure to offer constant positive reinforcement and praise for their efforts as this will motivate and inspire them to persevere.” – Katrina Kahler

“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

“If a task is once begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.” – Author Unknown

“A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.” – Muriel Strode

“A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.” – English Proverb

“All the energy, emotions, and hard work driving towards one goal you FULLY believe in – something you feel is entirely worth the efforts – then it becomes a reality.” – Andrew Wright Sr.

“All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“All I ever knew, was that effort would get me seen on tape, effort would get me noticed to get to the league, effort would one day take care of my mom and my kids. Effort, which is between you and you. Nobody else can give you effort. Effort is what is inside” – Ray Lewis

“… importance is still a key variable in where we focus our effort, but it’s kept in check by another factor: interest… It doesn’t matter if you’re the most disciplined person on earth. If you’re not enjoying life and doing things that are interesting to you, you will become bored, disengaged and unhappy.” – Alykhan Gulamali

“Life is not just about doing everything at once, nor is it about having everything you want or desire without the effort, struggle, or failures that are encountered.” – Byron Pulsifer

“The best sort of character, however, cannot be formed without effort. There needs the exercise of constant self-watchfulness, self-discipline, and self-control.” – Samuel Smiles

“A little more persistence a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.” – Vatsal Surti

Making Effort Quotes

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“There are ample studies proving the irrefutable truth; a positive attitude is directly connected to success and happiness. So, make that extra effort to remain positive, to keep positive thoughts, and slowly with diligent effort, you will find this attitude becoming a habit that you will not be able to shake off!” – Kathryn Prentice

“The view is better when it is earned.”

“The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent…there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.” – Virginia Woolf

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose in life is to give it away.” – Pablo Picasso

“A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.” – Watchman Nee

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – Yoko Ono

“Acting upon your convictions is the most difficult of all human efforts.” – Helen Mayhew

“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” – Roger Bannister

“The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer

“Success stories, whether by individuals or organizations, are almost always the result of collaborative effort among many people who are united by a single goal and vision.” – Rupert Johnson

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

“The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.” – Walt Disney

“The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“There is an element of Luck in all success. Luck is so important it’s one of the elements of PEARL: Passion, Effort, Ability, Risk, and Luck. All five are required for success. Luck, however, is the wildcard – we don’t directly control it. The other four, we squarely control – even Ability.” – Tim Garrison

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life – happiness, freedom, and peace of mind – are always attained by giving them to someone else.” – Peyton Conway March

“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

“Putting forth the effort to succeed is tantamount to your success.” – Jon Jones

“Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides

“Nothing can come of nothing.” – William Shakespeare

“A feeble effort will not fulfill the self.” – African Proverb

“Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.” – Ann Landers

“About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.” – Gloria Pitzer

“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.” – George S. Patton

“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” – Ramana Maharshi

“No more effort is required to dream big, to demand abundance and personal prosperity, than is required to accept poverty and misery.” – Vic Johnson

“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” – Shelby Steele

“One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.” – Albert Einstein

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” – Charles Dickens

“The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.” – Albert Einstein

“The Tao of the sage is work without effort.” – Laozi

“No bees, No honey, No work, No money.” – Author Unknown

“Never did I imagine luck as something I could create with my own effort. But it made sense.” – Anthony Frasier

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman

“Never give up efforts, even if you fail, the benefit you derive is experience.” – M. K. Soni

“The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” – Bruce Lee

“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.” – Napoleon Hill

“If a man is called a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.” – Robin Sharma

“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.” – Maya Angelou

“I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” – Arnold Palmer

“I was beginning to understand that even the strongest bars can be bent if we apply enough effort.” – Tony Clark

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder

“No matter how much effort you put in, some people just won’t appreciate it.”

“Looking within is not something we are accustomed to doing. We live in a culture where meeting our outer needs occurs without much effort.” – Will Craig

“Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.”

“Like the body-shop shop man and the owner of the car, we concentrate on the condition of the machine and the results we want; we don’t have to figure out how the accident happened, and we judge the success or failure of our efforts by how close we’ve come to the results we want.” – Brad Blanton

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James

“Mental toughness with extreme effort is the formula for success.” – Mark Wiggins

“Men who know exactly what they want of life, and are determined to get it, do not stop with wishing. They intensify their wishes into a burning desire, and back that desire with continuous effort based on a sound plan.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it. Most people don’t understand that.” – Michael Jordan

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.” – Katherine Arden

“I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Hope is wishing for a thing to come true. Faith is believing it will come true. Work is making it come true.” – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“He who seeks rest finds boredom….He who seeks work finds rest.”

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T.S. Eliot

“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn

“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” – Pat Riley

“If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.” – Robert Brault

“It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.” – Claude M. Bristol

“If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” – Mark Twain

Time And Effort Quotes

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“You get what you give. Next time you want something, give it all you got never forget.” – Rachana Rachel Carter

“You can put all your effort in trying to make someone happy… but there comes a time when we become tired of trying to fill a bucket that is leaking from the inside.” – Steve Maraboli

“You can accomplish wonders through focus and persistence. Over time, the fruits of your efforts will multiply to yield a luxuriant carpet of achievement.” – Gina Mohammed

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you first begin a project, you may only have enough time to do a little. Over time, however, what may first appear to be small efforts will multiply and end up being significant!” – Catherine Pulsifer

“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw

“To make the effort, to chart a new course, to take a risk on a new career building strategy, or to start a brand new business is challenging enough without having to listen to those who have no words of encouragement when times get tough, who offer only the same old way of thinking, who are willing to spend more time whining than doing, or who are jealous of your desires because they are too lazy, too scared, or too willing to keep doing what they’ve always done and get what they’ve always got.” – Byron Pulsifer

“The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The passion of genuine enthusiasm is an energy you can generate yourself. How? Simple: by focusing your time, effort, and energy on those ideas, activities and pursuits that get you excited.” – Rita Davenport

“The man who succeeds is a man who has withstood the tests of time, trials, and has made every effort count.” – Hermann J. Steinherr

“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan

“Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.” – Ken Venturi

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.” – Og Mandino

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley

“Perhaps the world isn’t giving you what you want because based on all your distractions and lack of discipline it’s simply unclear what you are asking for.” – Brendon Burchard

“Perfectionism is a time waster – 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome – so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.” – Mira Kirshenbaum

“One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.” – John Wanamaker

“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale

“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

“I can is 100 times more important than IQ.”

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus

“Giving time and effort to assist others to be successful shows the capacity for sincerity.” – Steve Brunkhorst

“Everybody wants to improve their life but most of the time, it remains just a “want.” You must put your time, effort and sometimes money to make it happen.” – K. Collins

“Everybody needs a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times.” – Will Smith

“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.” – Sandra Day O’Connor

“There is no substitute for work.” – Vince Lombardi

“By identifying the 20 percent of efforts that matter most and produce the greatest results, anyone can save time, improve performance, and simplify their life.” – Michael Linsin

“Any worthwhile, let alone noteworthy achievement is inherently tough. It takes considerable effort, energy, and sacrifice – sacrifice – usually over a significant period of time – to make it happen. Otherwise, it’s not an achievement. That’s GRIT. Without it, nothing happens.” – Paul G. Stoltz

“Again, it helps to have the company of someone who can inspire you to put in your best efforts. Inspiration will help you remain on track and do more in less time.” – Jill Hesson

“There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.” – Mark Cuban

“There is often a much simpler way of doing things – if you make the effort to look for it.” – Edward de Bono

“You can also work more creatively, or you can do anything that enables you to get greater leverage and results from your efforts.” – Brian Tracy

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

“Without putting in some effort, everything that you do will just be some futile thing, my dear.”

“When your actions and habits combine with intense effort and are directed by a solid purpose, it is this level of commitment that charges the senses and fuels your enthusiasm for attaining the seemingly impossible.” – Scott Allan

“There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile.” – Jeff Dixon

“You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.” – Paulo Coelho

“It is the effort that matters and it is the effort that God cares about. Do your best and God will do the rest, and you will be exactly where you are currently meant to be.” – Timothy McGaffin II

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca

“It doesn’t matter if you lose, it matters if you don’t try.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath

“Kids react positively when praise follows positive effort and earned progress.” – Jacquie McTaggart

“Just try to bethe best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.” – J