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

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.
Plato

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock

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

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

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

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

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

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

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

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Epictetus

People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Albert Ellis

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

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James A. Baldwin

Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Vincent Van Gogh

The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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

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