Effort Quotes

"It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best."

W. Edwards Deming

"The greatness of helping others rests on the greatness of untiring effort."

Thiruvalluvar

"Lack of good fortune is no disgrace; the disgrace is to lack knowledge and effort."

Thiruvalluvar

"Generosity without effort fails, like a sword in the hand of a coward."

Thiruvalluvar

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

Jennifer Lim

"It's not about perfect. It's about effort."

Jillian Michaels

"Like what you do, and then you will do your best."

Katherine Johnson

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have."

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Oprah Winfrey

"Though fate may thwart, effort will surely yield its wages."

Thiruvalluvar

"Success is never owned; it is only rented – and the rent is due every day."

Rory Vaden

"Success is dependent on effort."

Sophocles

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

Elbert Hubbard

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

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

"Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident."

"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."

Theodore Roosevelt

"The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching."

Mia Hamm

"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable."

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."

"In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims is worth attaining."

Rosalind Franklin

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

Edmund Burke

"Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect."