These effort quotes will inspire you. Effort, a vigorous or determined attempt.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging effort quotes, effort sayings, and effort proverbs.
Inspirational Effort Quotes
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.” ~ Robert Collier
- “When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.” ~ Deepak Chopra
- “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” ~ John F. Kennedy
- “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
- “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” ~ Jesse Owens
- “No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” ~ Ramana Maharshi
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“Walls don’t fall without effort.” ~ Neal Shusterman
- “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ~ Sigmund Freud
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“For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach” ~ Marguerite de Navarre
- “Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.” ~ James Allen
- “we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education – education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.” ~ Bill Cosby
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“The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.” ~ Mark Cuban
- “Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings” ~ Rumi
- “The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
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“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.” ~ John Ruskin
- “Much effort, much prosperity.” ~ Euripides
- “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” ~ Aeschylus , Time and effort quotes
- “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
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“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.” ~ Lydia M. Child
- “I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.” ~ Arnold Palmer
- “Nothing can come of nothing.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “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.” ~ James A. Baldwin
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“The one thing that matters is the effort.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail.” ~ Helen Keller
- “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 , Effort quotes love
- “If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” ~ Pat Riley
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“Full effort is full victory.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
- “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.” ~ Erich Fromm
- “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.” ~ William James
- “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” ~ Arnold Palmer
- “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses or the problems of modern society.
Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a teamwork, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” ~ Vince Lombardi -
“If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.” ~ Robert Brault
- “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- “The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
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“The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” ~ Roger Bannister
- “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “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.” ~ Denis Waitley , Effort quotes success
- “The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent…there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.” ~ Virginia Woolf
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“Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn’t come before.” ~ Shelby Steele
- “A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “The harder I work the more I live.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you’re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you’ll win – if you don’t, you won’t.” ~ Bruce Jenner
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“Effort is between you and you.” ~ Ray Lewis
- “Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.” ~ Og Mandino
- “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” ~ Vince Lombardi
- “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.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “When you’ve got something to prove, there’s nothing greater than a challenge.” ~ Terry Bradshaw
- “If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.” ~ Georges Guynemer
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“Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.” ~ Ken Venturi
- “I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody’s gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want if you work hard enough for it.” ~ Branch Warren
- “Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence, and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.” ~ James Whitcomb Riley
