Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Effort

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.
John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.
Colin Powell (1937–2021) American Military Leader

These people are often authoritarian and rigid in their views, exerting power over others in an effort to keep others from having power over them. Persecutors may act grandiose and self-righteous to mask their own insecurity.
David Emerald

In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone. We all float on the collective level of consciousness of mankind, so that any increment we add comes back to us. We all add to our common buoyancy by our efforts to benefit life. It is a scientific fact that what is good for you is good for me.
David R. Hawkins (1927–2012) American Physician, Author

The fact is, nothing comes; at least, nothing good. All has to be fetched.
Charles Buxton (1823–71) British Politician, Writer

You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn’t enough, in the second half you give what’s left.
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson

Virtue proceeds through effort.
Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist

Let not a man waste his day and night from more on less benefit. The more he wastes, the more his life meets with emptiness.
Buddhist Teaching

If you have enough push, you don’t have to worry about the pull.
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author

The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
Charles Mackay (1814–89) Scottish Poet, Journalist, Songwriter

As a result of trying to solve the big problems we face in life, many of us end up sacrificing individual relationships by doing things that we may consider as being small or insignificant at the time. This reminds us of the George and Gracie routine where George asks Gracie, How do you cook a pot roast? She replied, I put both a big pot roast and a small pot roast in the oven. When the small one is burnt, the big one is done just right!
Unknown

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) American Abolitionist, Author

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man’s bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.
Dan Millman (b.1946) American Children’s Books Writer, Sportsperson

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That’s the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno (1926–2012) American Sportsperson

When a man does not reckon the heat and cold more than the grass (does), he is sure to be rewarded with happiness in the long run.
Buddhist Teaching

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant (1893–1978) American Chemist, Educator

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
Unknown

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.
Arthur Brisbane (1864–1936) American Newspaper Editor, Investor

If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !
Unknown

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German Poet, Dramatist

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.
Bruce Jenner (b.1949) American Sportsperson

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
Unknown

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there—or failing to get there.
Max Lerner (1902–92) Russian-born American Journalist

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) American Jurist, Author

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

A hundred years of a person who is lazy and inactive is not worth one day of him who has a strong effort.
Buddhist Teaching

If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.
Common Proverb

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.
T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author

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