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Effort Quotes

You do not get success just by thinking about it. A Lot of hard work and efforts are needed to achieve success in life. Be it scoring good marks in school or getting a hike in a job, you need to put your best efforts for it. Unless you give your effort, have the right attitude and self discipline, it is not possible to achieve success in life. If you are ready to put in a lot of effort, here are some of the most famous effort quotes to motivate you.

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

Pat Riley

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Cameron Diaz

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

George Carlin

Always do whatever's next.

Osama bin Laden

The effort was never: Determine which individuals we ought to roll up.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Clayton Kershaw

You can't control the talents He gives you, no doubt about that. But you can control the effort you put forth with those talents.

I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

James Baldwin

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Charles Kingsley

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Anthony Hopkins

I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going.

John Ruskin

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Erich Fromm

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Napolean Hill

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Erich Fromm

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.

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Charles Kingsley

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

Brigitte Macron

I have always put a lot of effort into the way I present myself; just ask my children or students!

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Peyton List

It takes effort to be a real friend and to find a true friend.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Vince Lombardi

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

Erich Fromm

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Nora Roberts

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Mitch McConnell

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

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Elbert Hubbard

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

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My priority is cricket. Everything that I get apart from it is a result of the effort on the field. Everything else follows. I am pretty aware of my priorities, and I don't really focus on things that are not as important to me as cricket.

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

Donald Glover

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

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Orlando Bloom

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

Eddie Murphy

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.

George Carlin

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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Denzel Washington

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Thomas Jefferson

They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witchesdo the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. 

Bill Skarsgard

I've never understood the appeal of feeling really scared. I know that people do find it really thrilling. For me, artistically, it needs to be worth the effort of me feeling uncomfortable watching it.

James Franco

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

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Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Napolean Hill

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

Meg Ryan

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.

Emma Thompson

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

George Santayana

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

William Osler

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

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Michael Jordan

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.

Robert Kennedy

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.

Conan O'Brien

I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but I think I had to go through it to know exactly what a titanic effort that was going to be.

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.

Denis Waitley

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

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Jules Renard

Fame is a constant effort.

Mark Cuban

Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list.

Thomas Mann

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Matt Bomer

When it's a really dark emotional scene, you have to make the effort to shake it off, at the end of the day, before you go home to your kids and try to be a normal human being. You definitely want to make that effort to shake it off.

Vince Lombardi

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

Kayleigh McEnany

Neither an almost $35 million Mueller investigation, ending in an exonerating report, nor a sham impeachment effort could deter Trump from moving forward with the business of the American people.

I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.

Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a lot of information. So information that organizations are spending economic effort into concealing, that's a really good signal that when the information gets out, there's a hope of it doing some good.

Plato

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

The Torjagerkanone means a lot to me. It was a great effort - made by the whole team.

Denis Waitley

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Michael Jordan

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.

Lady Gaga

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

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Chanakya

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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Napolean Hill

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

Kawhi Leonard

As long as you give your best effort, I feel like that's all you can do.

John Ruskin

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

J. R. R. Tolkien

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.

Dave Chappelle

If I put forth a legitimate effort, then I feel like, if that doesn't work out, that's all I can do.

Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as myself. I would be broken with fatigue at the day's end. Other days, on the contrary, the work would be a most minute and delicate fractional crystallization, in the effort to concentrate the radium.

Still, it can be more effective to accomplish what you need to accomplish with the minimum effort. Watch Anthony Hopkins. He doesn't appear to be doing anything. He is so still that you can't see him working, but you are drawn into his character through his very stillness.

Ivanka Trump

My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.

Jude Law

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Paul Ryan

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Searching for music is like searching for God. They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist.

Ronaldo

Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.

Chuck Palahniuk

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

Les Brown

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Zooey Deschanel

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The one thing that matters is the effort.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

Halsey

I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

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Rob Lowe

I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.

Steve Carell

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

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I try to live in the present. I learn from my mistakes in an effort not to repeat them, but I remain totally focused on today and tomorrow. Many of my mistakes turned out to be incredible opportunities for growth, both professionally and personally, and therefore, in hindsight, they were deeply valuable.

Keir Starmer

Ensuring we have the best possible Brexit deal will take time, effort and huge diplomatic skill.

If I'm working in the city, then as soon as I'm home, I try to lock in on my son for a few hours. Every day. I see how important it is that he's starting to come into my world now. It's just an effort to give him that male mode of being.

Liv Tyler

When you put a bit more effort into some things, the results are wonderful, especially as a woman - in your health, your body, your skin, your hair. It can be about that extra five little minutes a day, 30 more minutes a week.

Vladimir Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

Jack Nicholson

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Shawn Mendes

I give big ups to people who are very big on social media, whether they're doing vlogs or whatever. It takes a lot of effort.

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