Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Effort.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
William E. Hickson
Forget about style; worry about results.
Bobby Orr
Do not waste a minute -- not a second -- in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Outer consequences are not in our power to control; it is only possible to make an effort, and inner consequences always follow from our effort.
Leo Tolstoy
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Barbara Sher
Contrary to what we usually believe . . . the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times--although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them.The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: T
Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
John D. Rockefeller
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann von Goethe
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell
I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.
William Danforth
I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.
Jesse Barfield
Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.
Brian O'Shaugnessy
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexander Dumas
It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
H. W. Dresses
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides
