Effort Quotes

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

Strength, Key, Potential

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

Dreams, Reality, Order

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

Success, Failure, May

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark Twain

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

Mind, Greatest, Brain

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

Victory, Lies, Full

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

Work, Society, Team

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

Powerful, Less, Faster

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi

Moral, Hold, Authority

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

Best, Positive, Attitude

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Leadership, Failure, Today

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Experience, Rich

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

Person, Greed, Endless

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

Person, After, Quit

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill

Strength, Struggle, Through

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

Great, Mother, Nothing

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Anger, Done

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

Life, Love, Morning

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.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Focus, Game

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best, Person, After

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

Single, May, Night

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.
Vince Lombardi

Hard, Goal, Born

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

Life, Good, True

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt

Courage, Through, Energy

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

Education, Struggle, Thought

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

Happiness, Joy, Creative

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature, God, Human

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Elizabeth Edwards

Hope, Positive, Simple

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

Reward, Multiple

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard

Success, Time, Patience

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