Effort Quotes

"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try." "Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best." "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." "Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty." "Work. Keep digging your well. Water is there somewhere." "Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something will find it." "I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you." "If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart." "Blood, sweat, and respect. First two you give. Last one you earn." "Sometimes you find success and sometimes you don’t, but my satisfaction is knowing I’ll always control my effort with my own two hands." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." "Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well." "The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty." "Eighty percent of success is showing up." "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." "Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well." "Without a solid, realistic and detailed plan, the goal is nothing more than a pipe dream. And without the commitment to follow through on that plan and put forth the necessary effort, the dream is nothing more than a good intention." "Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration."