Quotes About Effort

Those who work hard will succeed, While those who slack at their work will be in need

I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.

Practice diligence, intelligence will follow you.

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

Whoever dare dream, must do much activity to realize the dream.

Much effort is needed for a dream to come true.

Don't strive for perfection, just do your best. Everything in life is ever revolving to be perfect.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Don't worry; work!

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

It is a struggle; for though the white man of the South may be too proud to admit it, he is, nevertheless, using in the contest his best energies; he is devoting to it the greater part of his thought and much of his endeavor.

but if the Negro is so distinctly inferior, it is a strange thing to me that it takes such tremendous effort on the part of the white man to make him realize it, and to keep him in the same place into which inferior men naturally fall.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

The ripest peach is highest on the tree.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.

There are no second-place finishers—you don't take silver, you simply lose gold. Second place is nothing but the best loser—nobody lost better than the guy in second place. But on the battlefield that guy usually winds up dead.

The one who never draws a bow, never strikes.

Arn was about to say something about having too much work awaiting him, and that only at the end of the workday should a man enjoy the fruits of what he had accomplished by the sweat of his brow.

I see that you are not happy with our command,' said the archbishop. 'No, Your Grace. I've tried to acquit myself well here at the cloister, and I don't mean to boast in any way when I say that, but I can honestly argue that I've done my best,' said Arn, crushed.

It took a great deal of force and time to deal with these barricades, and victory was elusive.

Those who are not lazy will have a better chance for a steadfast future.

Men ate the bread of angels," was how the psalmist described it. That appeared, somehow, to illustrate his marriage. Every day, with what seemed to be no effort at all on his part, he received God's extraordinary provision of contentment—there it was, waiting for him at every dawn; all he had to do was gather it in.

May our sleep be deep and soft,' " he whispered, " 'so our work be fresh and hard.