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Quotes About Effort

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
~ Edwin Percy Whipple
I had flops, I had success.
~ Agnes Varda
Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.
~ Dwyane Wade
I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job.
~ Valeria Lukyanova
Genuine effort is success.
~ Vernon Howard
Success is a staircase, not a doorway.
~ Dottie Walters
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
~ Robert Browning
Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
~ Roger Staubach
The great ones realize that what you did yesterday guarantees you nothing today. The challenge is too many people are busy celebrating yesterday's success.
~ Don Yaeger
Thou didst thy best, that is success.
~ John Wooden
. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.
~ Kathy Lette
Success is the most natural thing in the world. The person who does not succeed has placed himself in opposition to the laws of the Universe.
~ Elbert Hubbard
You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.
~ Zig Ziglar
You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.
~ Orrin Woodward
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
~ Colin Wilson
Somehow, when everything is too easy it's not necessarily the right recipe for success
~ Debbie Moore
Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.
~ Mamie McCullough
Success isn't something that occurs. Success is something that you create
~ Robin Sharma
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
~ Sophocles
Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.
~ Kató Lomb
This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
~ Joseph Addison
Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort
~ John Wooden
Without Struggle There Is No Success
~ Frederick Douglass
If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.
~ W. H. Auden