Effort Quotes

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

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

Individual, Results, Combined

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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
Lydia M. Child

Happiness, Made, Others

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

Freedom, Past, Means

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore Roosevelt

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Nelson Mandela

Black, Act, Africa

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

Success, Winning, Try

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
Marcus Garvey

Life, Success, Why

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
John Wooden

Success, Peace, Best

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.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

Live, Living, Wore

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.
Chanakya

Done, Him, Learned

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

True, Feeling, Write

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Heraclitus

Good, Character, Week

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

Work, Means, Growth

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War, Political, Fire

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia

Society, Character, Real

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Nothing, Means, Clearly

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

Work, Put, Seems

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Worth, Knowing, Explain

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
Liberty Hyde Bailey

Good, Someone, Attention

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer

Result, Accident, Commitment

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.
Mitt Romney

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Society, Law, Liberty

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

Success, Dependent

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Best, Failure

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

Speak, Earth, Heaven

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

Result, Quality, Accident

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson

Alone, Failure, Successful

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