Sayings about Efforts
To be willing is to be able. ~ French Proverb
If you want to build high, you must dig deep. ~ Mongolian Proverbs
If you plant grass, you won’t get rice ~ Malaysian Proverbs
It takes a whole village to raise a child. ~ African Proverb
The world does not make promises to anybody. ~ African Proverbs
Once does not mean frequently, and twice does not mean constantly. ~ Costa Rican Proverbs
If you put in you can take out. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~ French Proverb
You’ve got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was. ~ Irish Proverbs
If a man plants melons he will reap melons; if he sows beans, he will reap beans. ~ Chinese Proverb
Quotations about Efforts
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. ~ Richard G. Scott
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. ~ Joseph Franklin Rutherford
The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake. ~ Timothy Gallwey
Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. ~ Walt Disney Quotes
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
No one can be great, or good or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. ~ Frederick W. Robertson
The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. ~ Napoleon Hill
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~José Ortega y Gassett
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space. ~ Pius XII
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results. ~ James Allen
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. ~ William Feather
If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull. ~ Zig Ziglar Quotes
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment. ~ Maxwell Maltz
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap. ~ Julia C. R. Dorr
The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires us to try. ~ Mother Teresa Quotes
Things will get better — despite our efforts to improve them. ~ Will Rogers
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is like one who ploughs a field but does not sow it. ~ Calvin Coolidge
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. ~ Thomas Jefferson Quotes
It takes no more effort to expect the best, than to fear for the worst. It’s healthier, more productive, and a lot more fun. ~ Philip Hambert
Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. ~ Clint Eastwood
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. ~ Samuel Johnson
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ~ James A. Garfield
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead. ~ William James
Nothing can come of nothing. ~ William Shakespeare
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. ~ John Fowles
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts. ~ Albert Einstein Quotes
Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us. ~ Sidney Powell
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others. ~ John Ruskin
The one thing that matters is the effort. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. ~ T.L. Gayler
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile. ~ Brian Tracy
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. ~ Blaise Pascal
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. ~ George A. Buttrick
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. ~ Harold Ruopp
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. ~ Orison Swett Marden
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ~ Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Abundant effort compensates for sparse talent. ~ Larry Hehn
Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts. ~ Erskine Bowles
Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. ~ David O. McKay
Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ~ Frank McGee
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out… ~ Robert Collier
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. ~ John Dewey
If a man has done his best, what else is there? ~ George S. Patton
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ~ Simone Weil
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. ~ Emily Bronte
I’m a determined person. And if I’ve got an objective, I’ll make hours of sacrifice — whatever efforts are needed. ~ Gerald R. Ford
All that we do is done with an eye to something else. ~ Aristotle Quotes
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~ Gloria Pitzer
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ~ Napoleon Hill
I would rather earn 1% of a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts. ~ John D. Rockefeller
The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. ~ Phil Jackson
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. ~ Richard Whately
Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. ~ Willard Libby
Continuous effort! not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking your potential. ~ Winston Churchill Quotes
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Will you be satisfied with the fruit of your life’s work? Will the efforts you are making now bring you satisfaction when the things of time are receding, and eternity looms ahead? ~ Raymond L. Cox
Much effort, much prosperity. ~ Euripides
I want you to start a crusade in you life — to dare to be your best. ~ William Danforth
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. ~ Horatio W. Dresser
The power of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. ~ Blaise Pascal
There are hundreds of tasks we feel we must accomplish in the day, but if we do not take them one at a time… we are bound to break our own physical or mental structure. ~ Ted Bengermino
There are only two stimulants to one’s best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward. ~ John M. Wilson
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ~ William Hazlitt
I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don’t put forth the effort. ~ Joe Carter
Do your best every day and your life will gradually expand into satisfying fullness. ~ Horatio W. Dresser
Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain. ~ Dave Pelzer
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. ~ Arnold Palmer
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. ~ George Santayana
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results. ~ James Allen
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. ~ Charlotte Bronte
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day to make me the same as everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. ~ EE Cummings
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now. ~ Swami Venkatesananda
There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts. ~ Janet Reno
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. ~ Nadine Gordimer
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts — once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. ~ George Sand
So get a few laughs and do the best you can. ~ Will Rogers
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. ~ Albert Camus Quotes