Effort Quotes

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

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.

Alexander Osborn

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.

Erich Fromm

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Charlotte Bronte

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

Vince Lombardi

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

James Allen

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

W. J. Cameron

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

Alexander Hamilton

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Al Jaffee

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

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.

Unknown

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

Barbara Tobe

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A. A. Milne

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

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.

Ronald Reagan