Effort Quotes

R. a. salvatore, sojourn - it is better, i think, to grab at the stars than...
Samuel johnson - what is written without effort is in general read...
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
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
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.
Black Elk
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Anon.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
Franklin d. roosevelt, first inaugural address, mar. 4, 1933 - first of all, let me assert my firm belief that...
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
Al Jaffee
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M Bristol
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
Charlotte Bronte
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Martin Fische
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Karl Kraus
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.
Orison Swett Marden