Quotes About Effort

Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.

The great ones don't come cheap.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

With great effort comes great gratification.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.

Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Energy creates energy. It is by spending myself that I become rich.

Happiness is a skill. It requires effort and time.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal.

Happiness is not a tangible thing, it's a byproduct - a byproduct of achievement.