Effort Quotes
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.George Eliot, internet
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
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 Zigla
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.Oliver Wendell Holmes
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.Cassia Lewis
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.Unknown
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.Ben Lindsey
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
Success is dependent on effort.Sophocles
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.A. A. Milne
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.Claude M Bristol
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
