You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Author Unknown
Effort Quotes and Sayings
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Labor disgraces no man unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
- Ulysses S. Grant
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
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
Continuous effort not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
- Garth Henrichs
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
- Larry Bird
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
- Augustus William Hare
Many people think they want things, but they don’t really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
- Sophia Loren
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- George Bernard Shaw