Quotes about Effort

“Nothing can come of nothing.”

“Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”

“Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!”

“The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.”

“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”

“The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.”

“Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”

“Easy DOESN'T do it.”

“Much effort, much prosperity.”

“One may go a long way after one is tired.”

“The one thing that matters is the effort.”

“There's no taking trout with dry breeches.”

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”

“The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.”

“If a man has done his best, what else is there?”

“Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.”

“What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.”

“It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.”

“If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.”

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

“Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.”

“Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.”

“Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.”

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

“Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.”

“If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.”

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

“It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.”

“I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.”

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