Quotes about Effort
If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
— George W. Bush
Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.
— Bishop TD Jakes
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 is opportunity and what isn't.
— Lucille Ball
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
— Calvin Coolidge
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
— Bob Marley
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
— Teresa of Avila
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
— Carl Jung
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
— Frederick Douglass
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
— Samuel Johnson
The enemy had been much demoralized by his defeats at Champion's Hill and the Big Black, and I believed he would not make much effort to hold Vicksburg.
— Ulysses S. Grant
There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.
— Victor Hugo