Effort Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Mignon McLaughlin
|
|
|
| Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
| You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. |
| - Unknown Author |
|
|
|
|
| I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. |
| - Larry Bird |
|
|
|
|
| To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. |
| - Confucius |
|
|
|
|
| Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. |
| - Thomas Alva Edison |
|
|
|
|
| Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. |
| - Sam Ewing |
|
|
|
|
| Plough deep while sluggards sleep. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
|
|
|
|
| Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. |
| - José Ortega y Gasset |
|
|
|
|
| The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. |
| - Edward Gibbon |
|
|
|
|
| Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. |
| - Ulysses S. Grant |
|
|
|
|
| He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. |
| - Joseph Heller |
|
|
|
|
| I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have. |
| - Thomas Jefferson |
|
|
|
|
| If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. |
| - Martin Luther, Jr. King |
|
|
|
|
| Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. |
| - Ann Landers |
|
|
|
|
| Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
|
|
|
|
| Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. |
| - Sophia Loren |
|
|
|
|
| There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. |
| - Joseph De Maistre |
|
|
|
|
| Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
|
| Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
|
| We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
|
|
|
|
| He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
|
|
|
|
| No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. |
| - Plutarch |
|
|
|
|
| No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
|
|
|
|
| Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. |
| - American Proverb |
|
|
|
|
| Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
|
| Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. |
| - Chinese Proverb |
|
|
|
|
| He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. |
| - Dutch Proverb |
|
|
|
|
| The footprint of the owner is the best manure. |
| - English Proverb |
|
|
|
|
| Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. |
| - Will Rogers |
|
|
|
|
| The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
|
|
|
|
| Doors don't slam open. |
| - John M. Shanahan |
|
|
|
|
| When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
|
|
|
|
| Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. |
| - Ben Stein |
|
| You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. |
| - Ben Stein |
|
|
|
|
| If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
|
|
|
|
| I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been. |
| - Sam Walton |
|
