Effort Quotes

• Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

  

  Arnold Palmer
  • Effort

• Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Different
  • Balance
  • Successful

• Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Effort
  • Feels
  • Effortless

• In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.

  

  Chet Raymo
  • Moments
  • Spring
  • Certain

• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  

  Charles Sheffield
  • People
  • Couple
  • Feelings

• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Fall
  • Wisdom

• Make sure that the career you choose is one you enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you're doing, it will be difficult to give the extra time, effort, and devotion it takes to be a success. If it is a career that you find fun and enjoyable, then you will do whatever it takes. You will give freely of your time and effort and you will not feel that you are making a sacrifice in order to be a success.

  

  Kathy Whitworth
  • Fun
  • Giving
  • Purpose

• FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • World
  • Important
  • Football

• If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Effort

• Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, "We think this is what happened, but we're not certain."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Effort

• Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Progress
  • Excellence
  • Preparation

• Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action
  • Positive
  • Blessing

• There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Care
  • Effort

• The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Universe
  • Effort

• Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Good
  • Effort

• In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • Art
  • Effort

• There is a concerted effort to keep you and me, you know, the people, away from what it [war] really looks like, 'cause when you're selling war, when it's such a big industry. What they don't tell you is the rest of it and the down side of it. And so obviously there is a lot of money and a lot of time and effort being spent on that campaign "perpetual war for perpetual peace".

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • War
  • Bigs

• Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.

  

  Georgia Salpa
  • Attention
  • Effort
  • Guys

• To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Taken

• In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Certain
  • Term
  • Modern

• Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Effort

• If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • Opportunity
  • Effort

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