Quotes About Effort

Nothing will work unless you do.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

All great achievements require time.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

You can't win them all but you can try.

Never say 'I could have done that,' because you didn't.

Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless you're donating blood.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.

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.

If I lose, I'll walk away and never feel bad because I did all I could. There was nothing more to do.

There are many trails up the mountain, but in time they all reach the top.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.