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Quotes about Effort

It's all in the day's work.
— Anonymous
Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.
— Anonymous
There's no need to be jealous of others' life, for the achievements that they got by chance. Why rely purely on luck when you can also achieve your goals through working hard?
— Anonymous
Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.
— Francine Rivers
Hard tasks need hard ways.
— Frank Herbert
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Winning isn't always championships.
— Michael Jordan
After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.
— Lou Holtz
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
— Thomas Becket
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
— Ronald Reagan
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.
— Lucille Ball
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
— Madeleine Albright