Effort Quotes and Sayings

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

If you can walk, you can run.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.

The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.

Never give up efforts, even if you fail, the benefit you derive is experience.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Little by little does the trick.

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Half this game is ninety percent mental.

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

It’s always too early to quit.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.

Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Doors don’t slam open.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

No one knows what he can do till he tries.

We must find a way, or we will make one.

I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

He who stops being better stops being good.

Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.