Quotes about Effort
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.
— John Maxwell
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been.
— Hamilton Wright Mabie
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
— Leo Burnett
Remember, never despise a taskâany task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.
— Janette Oke
God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
— Teresa of Avila
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.
— Jim Rohn
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
— Gordon Hinckley
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
— Martin Luther
There is no magic to achievement. It's really about hard work, choices, and persistence.
— Michelle Obama
You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
— Catherine of Siena