Effort Quotes and Sayings

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

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett

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

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

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

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King

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

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
- Robert Brault

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

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.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Benjamin Franklin

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon

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

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

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

Gift like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
- Jane Ellice Hopkins

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- Chuck Palahniuk

He was a self made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
- Joseph Heller

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
- Calvin Coolidge

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