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Quotes About Effort

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.
~ Irving Stone
Life grows relative to one's investment in it.
~ Marc Benioff
It's not important to know who you are. It's important to know what you do, and then to do it like hercules!
~ Stella Adler
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
~ W. C. Fields
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.
~ Jacob Bronowski
We get out of life what we put into it. The way we treat others is the way we ourselves get treated.
~ Benjamin Carson
I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.
~ Shakira
Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.
~ Steven Morrissey
Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.
~ Jay Leno
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
~ Salvador Dali
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
~ William Cowper
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
~ William Ellery Channing
Competition is healthy ... but there is more to life than winning or we should nearly all be losers
~ Charles Handy
It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.
~ Epictetus
Wanting the best that life has to offer is so nice. Working for the best that life has to offer is greater.
~ Jon Jones
No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.
~ Les Brown
Life's a climb, but the view's great.
~ Lucas Till
I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don't put into it!
~ Marilyn Monroe
Isn't (life) all about trying?
~ Michael Jordan
Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
~ Robert Browning