Effort Quotes

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

I’ve been thinking a lot about legacies lately. Life seems to be a waste without someone to share it with and even more so when there’s no one to benefit from your efforts when you’re gone. Sort of makes you want to throw your hands up in the air and stop working. Luckily, that feeling forces you to focus more on today… even if only to avoid being depressed while thinking about an empty, distant tomorrow. What can I do today to enrich others? What can I share with the people I encounter today?

LaShawnda Jones

Walls don't fall without effort.

Neal Shusterman

Nothing of worth was ever achieved without the focused effort to pursue or create whatever was desired or needed.

Steven Redhead

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

Vishal Ostwal

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

Jim George

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Dean Koontz

Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.

Angelica Hopes

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

Joan D. Vinge

Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require more time and effort and at a high cost, causing a great deal of disruption and stress.

Beth Ramsay

I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort.

Harold Brodkey

He taught me how small, day-by-day decisions add up to the great consequences and that every thoughtful and educated decision I made about my life would eventually lead me to a clear and more satisfying understanding of my calling.

Eric Motley

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

Tim Fargo

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Nora Roberts

If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.

Robert Koch

The human mind has a tendency to observe unsystematic events and assign a pattern to the results. A habitual risk-taker reorganizes the stream of random events and retrospectively attributes the outcome of indiscriminate trials to their own gambling “strategies.” We often hear people say that they are lucky or unlucky, when in actuality they can claim no ownership in the occurrence of chaotic outcomes. A false sense of the existence of luck can cause people to discount the value of their actual effort, skill, and training.

Kilroy J. Oldster

The first step is always the hardest

Sarah Dessen

Civility is not a specific code of behavior as much as it is a call to unrelenting preemptive thought, and steady effort to care about influence on others.

John R. Dallas Jr.

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing it in my mind as the ideal straight line – the longest distance between two points. I've never had a knack for the active life. I've always taken wrong steps that no one else takes; I've always had to make an effort to do what comes naturally to other people. I've always wanted to achieve what others have achieved almost without wanting it. Between me and life there were always sheets of frosted glass that I couldn't tell were there by sight or by touch; I didn't live that life or that dimension. I was the daydream of what I wanted to be, and my dreaming began in my will: my goals were always the first fiction of what I never was.

Fernando Pessoa

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.

Fernando Pessoa

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Carol Ryrie Brink

Just because someone can do something with little or no training, it doesn’t mean that others can’t do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training.

Carol S. Dweck

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a good teacher and gotten the proper training, she’d be so much further along!’ But I was wrong about that. She was not the kind of child who could stand proper training. There just happen to be people like that. They’re blessed with this marvelous talent, but they can’t make the effort to systematize it. They end up squandering it in little bits and pieces. I’ve seen my share of people like that. At first you think they’re amazing. Like, they can sight-read some terrifically difficult piece and do a damn good job playing it all the way through. You see them do it, and you’re overwhelmed. you think, ‘I could never do that in a million years.’ But that’s as far as they go. They can’t take it any further. And why not? Because they won’t put in the effort. Because they haven’t had the discipline pounded into them. They’ve been spoiled. They have just enough talent so they’ve been able to play things well without any effort and they’ve had people telling them how great they are from the time they’re little, so hard work looks stupid to them. They’ll take some piece another kid has to work on for three weeks and polish it off in half the time, so the teacher figures they’ve put enough into it and lets them go to the next thing. And they do that in half the time and go on to the next piece. They never find out what it means to be hammered by the teacher; they lose out on a certain element required or character building. It’s a tragedy.

Haruki Murakami

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

Kim Edwards

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

There is no gain without an effort, some gain with lots of effort and wonderful gain with smart effort.

Mussadiq Abdul Rahim

No one ever drowned in sweat.

U.S. Marine Corps

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Peter Drucker

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.

John Ruskin

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

Philip Roth

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.

Marty Rubin

As chief, I will represent my people in many different ways and might never know which particular action is destined to matter more than another, thus, all my actions should be considered potentially important and worthy of my best effort.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

Perfection is doing all that you could. And there's not a single thing more you can do.

Ahmad Ihsan Mohamad

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

Ze Frank

It's only young people who make giant, life-altering decisions based on what other people might think, and it's because they don't see their own death looming. Their fear is, "Will my family, friends and lovers admire me?" whereas an older person's fear is that vision of themselves lying in a hospital bed, a breathing tube up their nose and the thought running through their heads, "Why didn't I at least try to do what I wanted to do, while I had the chance?

Patricia V. Davis

Any effort made in the present is like an investment in the future.

Steven Redhead

Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

But first you have to fight, to try other ways. If your life displeases you, my lad, try to change it. Don't give in to defeat so easily. Death is the only sure defeat. It is the end of everything.

Félix J. Palma

The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort.

Alan W. Watts

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

Gloria Pitzer

Your sincere and honest effort only,shall lead you to the path of SUCCESS!!!tttttttt - Adbhut

Santosh Adbhut Kumar

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble.

Théophile Thoré

It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution.

Sunday Adelaja

Some think that they are incredible but are actually un-credible. Do you work, master your craft...

Rasheed Ogunlaru

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

George Pólya

Steam in an open space would just simply scatter in different directions. Steam contained in an engine can move a whole train. Success comes from One-pointedness and Constancy of Aim and Effort.

Choa Kok Sui

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

Marguerite de Navarre

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Elbert Hubbard

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

Bryant McGill

Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

Davis Levy

Nothing is for free, even in heaven.

Toba Beta

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

Chris Matakas

One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way..

Andrena Sawyer

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience... the two things we all lack..

Sanhita Baruah

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