Effort Quotes

A lover of comfort might shrug after looking at the whole apparent jumble of furniture, old paintings, statues with missing arms and legs, engravings that were sometimes bad but precious in memory, and bric-a-brac. Only the eye of a connoisseur would have blazed with eagerness at the sight of this painting or that, some book yellowed with age, a piece of old porcelain, or stones and coins.But the furniture and paintings of different ages, the bric-a-brac that meant nothing to anyone but had been marked for them both by a happy hour or memorable moment, and the ocean of books and sheet music breathed a warm life that oddly stimulated the mind and aesthetic sense. Present everywhere was vigilant thought. The beauty of human effort shone here, just as the eternal beauty of nature shone all around.pp. 492-493

~ Ivan Goncharov

Jesus cares more about our effort than our accomplishments.

~ Dillon Burroughs

It takes effort and concern to really think about things.

~ Sam Owen

aphorism 129:I would have every thought stoop and touch the Earth but that I already know the impossibility of the effort. A thought seems to have a life of its own and would rather leave itself open to flattering interpretations.

~ Matt Berry

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else... It is during such trough periods, much more than during the peak periods, that it is growing into the sort of creature He wants it to be... He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

~ C.s. Lewis

Hope floats but effort propels.

~ Rob Liano

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When you've prepared, practiced, studied, and consistently put in the required effort, sooner or later you'll be presented with your own moment of truth. In that moment, you will define who you are and who you are becoming. It is in those moments where growth and improvement live--when we either step forward or shrink back, when we climb to the top of the podium and seize the medal or we continue to applaud sullenly from the crowd for others' victories.

~ Darren Hardy

It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Personal growth doesn’t occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development.

~ Farshad Asl

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.

~ Vera Nazarian

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

~ James Rozoff

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: ... Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future by prolonging our lives forward in this direction. However, it is well possible in a certain sense to prolong our lives backwards by acquiring the experiences of those who existed before us and by learning to know their views as well as if we were their contemporaries. The means for doing this is also an elixir of life.

~ Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp

Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

~ Laurence G. Boldt

Seeing my mother get back to her studies was all the proof I needed that a chain of emotion can persuade when one forged of logic won't hold. But more important was her example that a surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence. It was something I would remember often in years ahead, whenever faced with fears that I wasn't smart enough to succeed.

~ Sonia Sotomayor

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can’t handle.

~ Sanya Richards-Ross

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

~ Morgan Freeman

Athletes train 15 years for 15 seconds of performance. Ask them if they got lucky. Ask an athlete how he feels after a good workout. He will tell you that he feels spent. If he doesn't feel that way, it means he hasn't worked out to his maximum ability. Losers think life is unfair. They think only of their bad breaks. They don't consider that the person who is prepared and playing well still got the same bad breaks but overcame them. That is the difference. His threshold for tolerating pain becomes higher because in the end he is not training so much for the game but for his character. Alexander Graham Bell was desperately trying to invent a hearing aid for his partially deaf wife. He failed at inventing a hearing aid but in the process discovered the principles of the telephone. You wouldn't call someone like that lucky, would you?Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation. Without effort and preparation, lucky coincidences don't happen.

~ Shiv Khera

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what's at stake isn't a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

~ Lewis H. Lapham

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

~ Tim Fargo

Failure is not able to have what you planned for, you planning for 'F' and having 'A' is a failure. Success is having what you do expect or planned, having 'F' when you planned for it is a success. Miracle is having a success you dont planned for, it breaks the law.

~ Adelaja Precious

Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.

~ Tim Fargo

Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true

~ Panashe Chigumadzi

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrinks from other actions, he transports the order of which he is the physiological representative into his relations with other human beings and with things. In a formula: his virtue is the consequence of his happiness…Everything good is instinct—and consequently easy, necessary, free. Effort is an objection.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

When it comes to human success, I'm pretty sure the object doesn't need a net external force to move it.

~ Majid Kazmi

There are no good tights, Rare they are, a rare sight. You roll and roll Inside a new hole, They´re only good for a fight.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Life can be a misunderstanding, if we are ignorant of the right language or don’t try to learn it. « If lions could speak, we would not understand them. » says Ludwig Wittgenstein. If we make an effort, however, we could manage to understand. ( “ Life was a misunderstanding » )

~ Erik Pevernagie

We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one’s self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.

~ Ron Baratono

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside agency, and will not respond any longer to any effort that the will may make to regain its original power of control.

~ Christian D. Larson

A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight.

~ Jeffrey Fry

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

~ Charles Bukowski

Improving the human condition takes little effort, destroying it takes maximum force.

~ T.f. Hodge

There is no greater path than the act of listening.

~ Bryant Mcgill

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.

~ Ralph Moody

Genetics doesn’t ensure love, or even like, time and effort do. You don’t give them your time, and you don’t show them effort

~ Kim Holden

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to... She was not much deceived as to her own skill either as an artist or a musician, but she was not unwilling to have others deceived, or sorry to know her reputation for accomplishment often higher than it deserved.

~ Jane Austen

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.

~ Mia Love