Quotes about Effort
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
Never settle for anything less than your best.
- Brian Tracy
99% of failures come from people who make excuses.
- George Washington
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
- Jim Rohn
Try a little harder to be a little better.
- Gordon Hinckley