Quotes about Effort

• All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do.
• You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
• Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. 
• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
• The one thing that matters is the effort.  It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. 
• I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. 
• I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
• The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. 
• Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. 
• No one understands that you have given everything.  You must give more. 
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
• Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
• The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
• The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. 
• Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
• When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures.  So I did ten times more work. 
• Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.
• Now I know, a refuge never grows, from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
• There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. 
• Hard work spotlights the character of people:  some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. 
• Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. 
• One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. 
• Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. 
• The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. 
• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. 
• The footprint of the owner is the best manure. 
• Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there. 
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. 
• Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. 
• The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
• Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. 
• If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. 
• Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. 
• If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. 
• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. 
• We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. 
• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. 
• People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. 
• Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view.  The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb. 
• My morning choices are having a good ussle. Procrastination was winning, but Make Your Bed & Good Breakfast just kicked his butt. 
• Plough deep while sluggards sleep. 
• Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. 
• For us, there is only the trying.  The rest is not our business. 
• There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. 
• Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. 
• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. 
• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. 
• Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. 
• God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with.  Success depends on which one you use.  Head you win, tail you lose. 
• Doors don't slam open. 
• About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. 
• Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline.  They are weak.  I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. 
• Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. 
• We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. 
• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. 
• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. 
• He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. 
• To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.