Effort Quotes

The world is corrupt, and the way for me to make it better is not by writing letters, but joining my efforts with those of others to produce a work of beauty.

~ H.s. Ede

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

~ Robert Mckee

You can’t “make” someone your soul mate. You can try but it will always be very hard work. Human relationships are hard even when they are easy, so it’s important to be in one with a soul mate. She felt she could learn to love Shane; that she might grow to love him over time. She always felt she could make her mind up and then accomplish anything, but the heart and the mind have different agendas. If she was going to try to make this relationship work, it had to come from her heart, not from ‘making up her mind’. You don’t have to “try” to be anything when you are with your soul mate because they are looking for who you are, not for who you are trying to be.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.

~ Kamand Kojouri

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

~ Criss Jami

Very often we sit back thinking good things will happen, knowing that good things take time and hoping that someone else will do it. The world needs us!

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do not want to know anything about the anxiety, the distress, the paradox. We carry on an esthetic flirtation with the result. It arrives just as unexpectedly but also just as effortlessly as a prize in a lottery, and when we have heard the result, we have built ourselves up.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Only super-efforts count.

~ G.i. Gurdjieff

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

~ Craig Ferguson

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you.

~ Mary Karr

The reward of a work is to have produced it, the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

~ Antonin Sertillanges

Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

~ Ana Monnar

You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work - one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a 'line'. It must be like still being a student, with an essay to do after a week's drinking, only you haven't had the drinking. Quite clearly, to me, you aren't a voluntary worker, from the will: you do it by intuitive flashes, more like an act of creation, & when the flashes don't come, as of course they don't, especially when the excess energy of undergraduate days is gone, then it is a hideous unnatural effort.

~ Philip Larkin

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find comfort in hero worship. It represents a release from the burden of responsibility (Teryl Givens, The Crucible of Doubt, 62).

~ Terry Givens

Follow your passion was not the message I heard growing up. Instead, I was told that the practical realities of surviving in the real world were far more important than any person living a sheltered life such as my own could imagine. I was warned that overly idealistic dreams of finding something I loved could in fact be a breadcrumb trail into poverty and disappointment.

~ Angela Duckworth

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

~ Amanda Craig

It is weird to see how people sometimes doesn't value and ignore the love and effort of the people who love them and try to stay. They push them away only to realise everything they did after they leave and make their memories as pillows to sleep over and cry upon it later.

~ Akshay Vasu

Life is a balance. We tend to forget that as we go blithely from day to day. We eat and drink and sleep and assume we will always rise up the next day, that meals and rest will always replenish us. Injuries we expect to heal, and pain to lessen as time goes by. Even when we are faced with wounds that heal more slowly, with pain that lessens by day only to return in full force at nightfall, even when sleep does not leave us rested, we still expect that somehow tomorrow will all come back into balance and that we will go on. At some point, the exquisite balance has tipped, and despite all our flailing efforts, we begin the slow fall from the body that maintains itself to the body that struggles, nails clawing, to cling to what it used to be.

~ Robin Hobb

If it´s cold and cloudy outside,And you want to be a great fella,Make all your troubles go glideOpening a smile as your umbrella.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

All the drain leads to the ocean...So chill out and enjoy the motion!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

~ James C. Dobson

God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You must choose a positive response to any situation. This is the step action to conquer it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Putting 100% effort into trying will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

~ Lindsey Rietzsch

Good fortune often occurs when you stop expecting life to present opportunities to you and you start presenting opportunities to life.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

~ Gina Greenlee

They had learned that Sorhatani expected the same sort of instant obedience as her husband. She had grown up around men of power and had married into the great khan’s family at a very young age. She knew that men prefer to follow, that it takes an effort of will to lead. She had that will.

~ Conn Iggulden

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both!

~ Mia Love

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

~ Moe Cidaly

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thousand warriors. He rushes into the fray as if he were summoned to a banquet. There is more than mere strength--there seems as if the whole soul and spirit of the champion were given to every blow which he deals upon his enemies. God assoilzie him of the sin of bloodshed! It is fearful, yet magnificent, to behold how the arm and heart of one man can triumph over hundreds.

~ Walter Scott

It is hard to begin and harder to finish.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

~ Confucius

How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.

~ Steve Maraboli

Pessimism doesn’t change the reality, it prolongs the status quo. And it brings everyone down. It’s only ever lose-lose. Optimism and faith coupled with pragmatism change the reality. Self-belief and self-reliance change the reality. Boldness to explore new ideas changes the reality. A vision powered by effort and energy changes the reality.

~ Rania Al Abdullah

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts.

~ Prerak Trivedi

It takes grace to stop working and go to bed. When in bed, more grace is needed to rise up and begin work again.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't pour a lifetime of effort into a seasonal relationship. Not everyone from the pilot belongs in the finale.

~ Mandy Hale