Effort Quotes

“If there is effort, there is always accomplishment.”

“To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.”

“And that the human being attains only what he strives for.”

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”

“Those who are striving to improve the lot of man may ground their hopes.”

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”

“The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.”

“Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!”

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”

“To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals — this alone is worth the struggle.”

“Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.”

“Wiktionary: Effort de:Streben fr:Effort ja:努力 fa:تلاش”

“I didn't think that working hard and wanting something that's out of your control would be that bothersome to people. It was just really disappointing for me.”

“The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.”

“Verily, the Hour is coming but I am about to make it manifest so that every soul may be rewarded as it strives.”

“Give
Me leisure, all the time Maecenas found
For Horace and his Virgil, and I'll try
To build a masterpiece destined to live
And save my name from ashes. When the ground
Is poor, the ox works listlessly; rich soil
Tires, but there's satisfaction then in toil.”

“Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.”

“Struggling. How many people in life have it easy? I don't care what you do for a living. I don't believe I'm gifted, like Clemente, or Cedeno, or Mantle. About 10% of the ballplayers are gifted. For the other 90% of us, it's a struggle.”

“In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.”

“Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
"maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
wouldn't say so till he'd tried.
he buckled right in with the trace of a grin
his face. If he worried he hid it.
He started to sing as he tackled the thing
That couldn't be done, and he did it.”