Effort Quotes

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.

Euripides

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.

Author Unknown

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

Felix Adle

If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.

Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.

Wilson Mizne

I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.

Ben Lindsey

Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.

Cassia Lewis

Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.

John Ruskin

Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.

Black Elk

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

Erich Fromm

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

Matthew Arnold

Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.

Charles Babbage

Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.

Black Elk, Native American

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

Andre Bernard Buruch

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi