65+ Quotes on Effort That Will Remind You To Stay Strong
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Running water never grows stale. So you just have to ”keep on flowing”.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Success is dependent on effort.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
I do not know anyone who has gotten to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but it will get you pretty near.
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Earned with the sweat of my brows.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Unless you are willing to drench yourself in your work beyond the capacity of the average man, you are just not cut out for positions at the top.
Much effort, much prosperity.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Never give up efforts, even if you fail, the benefit you derive is experience.
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
If a man is called to be a streetsweep-er, 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.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
It's blood, sweat, sometimes tears.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
If you can’t excell with talent, triumph with effort.
The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.
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.
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
