Quotes About Effort

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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

The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voices of friends and say to oneself, The work is done.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

Achievement is not always success while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

No man fails who does his best.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

There are many shortcuts to failure, but there are no shortcuts to true success.

The difference between success & failure isn't ability as much as action.

Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.

Don't mistake thinking for action & don't mistake action for results.

Pressure squeezes effort out of winners and excuses out of losers.

Successful people work hard on the right things b/c working hard on the wrong things only makes one worn out while failing.

You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make.

Success never goes on sale, but most spend their whole life dickering over the cost, never making the purchase.