Quotes About Effort

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

To get profit without risk, experience without danger and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late, ripe fruit of toil.

It's in the preparation-in those dreary pedestrian virtues they taught you in seventh grade and you didn't believe. It's making the extra call and caring a lot.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life's work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead?

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

The only way to the top is by persistent, intelligent, hard work.

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

There's such a thin line between winning and losing.

It takes time to be a success.

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward for taking time to do anything well.

The man who has done his level best, and who is conscious that he has done his best, is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

My success is measured by my willingness to keep trying.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather I believe it indispensible to talent: if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

I have found that it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

The only time you find success before work is in the dictionary.