Effort Quotes

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.
Donald Trump

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
John Dewey

I play to win, whether during practice or a real game. And I will not let anything get in the way of me and my competitive enthusiasm to win.
Michael Jordan

Nothing will work unless you do.

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

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

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.
Clint Eastwood

Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Herodotus

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
James Allen

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.
Hulk Hogan

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.
Herman Melville

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
Eddie Murphy

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
Charles Schwab

Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Robert Johnson

The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.
Thomas Friedman

When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crew
Tom Cruise

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.
Brigham Young

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
Mao Zedong

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
Neil Young

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

If you're going through hell, keep going.

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.
Cary Grant

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
Saddam Hussein

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.
Cecil Rhodes

Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.
Cesar Chavez

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.
Katharine Hepburn