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Quotes About Effort

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
~ Bill Johnson
We never do great things without trying.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
As is commonly said, 'to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.'
~ Haile Selassie
If you don't win, it's not a great tragedy - the worst that happens is that you lose a game.
~ Bobby Fischer
Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.
~ Nicky Gumbel
You should make great things, not promising great things.
~ Pythagoras
Do it, and then you will feel motivated to do it.
~ Zig Ziglar
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
~ Charles Kendall Adams
One of the most important rules for success is this: Every great success is the result of hundreds and thousands of small efforts and accomplishments that no one sees or appreciates.
~ Brian Tracy
We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.
~ Dwight L. Moody
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
~ Pat Riley
After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.
~ Narendra Modi
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
~ Geneen Roth
The difference between success and failure is work.
~ Jack Hyles
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
~ Eddie Marsan
And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.
~ Homer
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
~ John Keats
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
~ Robert Quillen
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
~ Ralph Adams Cram