Top 57 Effort Quotes

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It is important that you give your best effort when accomplishing a task. With that in mind, check out the top 57 effort quotes.

#57 – 50. Effort Quotes

57. It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. – Claude M. Bristol

56. Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. – Ralph Waldo Emerson 

55. The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. – Bruce Lee

54. One may go a long way after one is tired. – Proverb

53. World records are only borrowed. – Sebastian Coe

52. There is often a much simpler way of doing things – if you make the effort to look for it. – Edward de Bono

51. The amount of effort you put in is the amount of results you end up with. – Catherine Pulsifer

50. Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith. – Mata Amritanandamayi

#49 – 40. Effort Quotes

49. You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn’t enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left. – Yogi Berra

48. Too aim is not enough, you must hit! – Proverb

47. Mental toughness with xtreme effort is the formula for success – Mark Wiggins

46. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted. – David Bly

45. A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds. – English Proverb

44. It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. – Arnold Bennett

43. Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. – Clint Eastwood

42. The perception that luck plays in a lot of aspects of life is the erosion of what effort it takes to move the yardsticks forward. – Catherine Pulsifer

41. I don’t feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat. – Hank Aaron

40. Continuous effort– not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill 

#39 – 30. Effort Quotes

39. Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. – John Ruskin

38. You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. – Harvey S. Firestone

37. Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

36. No more effort is required to dream big, to demand abundance and personal prosperity, than is required to accept poverty and misery. – Vic Johnson

35. Hope is wishing for a thing to come true.  Faith is believing it will come true.  Work is making it come true. – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

34. Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

33. All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller

32. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

31. If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. – Lucille Ball

30. The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. – Buddha

#29 – 20. Effort Quotes

29. 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

28. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. – John F. Kennedy

27. Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. – Arnold Palmer

26. If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear. – Mark Twain

25. It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Sir Winston Churchill

24. Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. – Theodore Roosevelt

23. Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential. – Liane Cardes

22. The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. – Ecclesiastes 9:11

21. I like to be against the odds. I’m not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it’s just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance. – Barry Bonds

20. Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of. – Johnny Bench

#19 – 10. Effort Quotes

19. If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. – Proverb

18. There’s no taking trout with dry breeches. – Miguel de Cervantes

17. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. – Mahatma Gandhi

16. Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be.  That’s in your power. – John Wooden

15. Again, it helps to have the company of someone who can inspire you to put in your best efforts. Inspiration will help you remain on track and do more in less time. – Jill Hesson

14. Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete! – Robert Browning

13. I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out. – Nancy Reagan

12. Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. – Larry Bird

11. Thinking well is wise; planning well wiser; doing well wisest and best of all. – Persian Proverb

10. Life is an echo. What you send out, comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give you get. What you see in others exists in you. – Zig Ziglar

#9 – 1. Effort Quotes

9. No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. – Ramana Maharshi

8. Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. – Jim Rohn

7. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however. – Richard Bach

6. Putting forth the effort to succeed is tantamount to your success. – Jon Jones

5. What you get from life will be direct proportion to what you give to life. – Gail Lynne Goodwin

4. Your dreams will take time. It will take efforts and require dedication and sacrifice. But in the end it WILL be worth it. – Anurag Prakash Ray

3. There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon

2. Easy DOESN’T do it. – Al Bernstein

1. The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life. – Hannah Arendt

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