Quotes about Effort
I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no happiness that isn't earned.
— Dennis Prager
Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor.
— Thomas a Kempis
Some things you have to do every day. Eating about seven apples on Saturday night instead of one a day just isn't going to get the job done.
— Jim Rohn
There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie
To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.
— George Washington
I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will witness miracles come to pass.
— Gordon Hinckley
Mix idealism with realism and add hard work. This will often bring much more than you could ever hope for.
— John Wooden
Praying without fervency is like hunting with a dead dog.
— Charles Spurgeon
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
— Michelangelo
Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
— John Quincy Adams
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
— Jim Rohn