Effort Quotes

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

Ray Kroc

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

Emily Dickinson

"Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent."

Langston Coleman

"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."

Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Leave no stone unturned."

Euripides

"For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous."

"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

Walter Elliot

"Little strokes fell great oaks."

"He that would have the fruit must climb the tree."

Thomas Fuller

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

“There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.”

“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

“Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”

“I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfilment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle, victorious.”

“I did the best I could with what I had.”

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

“We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.”

“Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.”

“Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

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

“Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.”