This is our collection of Effort Quotes and sayings..
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
~Proverb
Effort doesn’t just mean physical or mental labor. It is about anything that you put yourself into.
eg: Checkout this quote by Tom Robbins
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
~Edward H. Harriman
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~Thomas Edison
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~ Napoleon Hill
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
~Winston Churchill
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
~Garth Henrichs
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
~Mark Burnett
If you can’t excell with talent, triumph with effort.
~Dave Weinbaum
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
~Mohandas Gandhi
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
~James A. Garfield
It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
~Sam Ewing
The footprint of the owner is the best manure.
~English Proverb
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
~Mark Twain
Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
~Will Rogers
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
~ Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.
~Albert Einstein
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
~George Santayana
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin
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
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
~Sarah Brown
No one knows what he can do till he tries.
~Publilius Syrus
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.
~Publilius Syrus
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
~José Ortega y Gassett
People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.
~Author Unknown
If you can walk, you can run.
~Publilius Syrus
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in.
~Chinese Saying
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
~T.S. Eliot
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
~Publilius Syrus
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
~Benjamin Franklin
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
~Vince Lombardi
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. ~Joseph de Maistre
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
~Heywood Hale Broun
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
~J.G. Holland
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
~Napoleon Hill
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
~Ulysses S. Grant
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
~Joseph Heller
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
~Helen Keller
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
~American Proverb
God gave us two ends – one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose.
~Author Unknown
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
~Napoleon Hill
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~Napoleon Hill
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~Plutarch
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb
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