Quotes about Effort
What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
- Charles Kettering
We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.
- Dorothy Day
One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.
- Albert Einstein
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.
- Napoleon Hill
A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
- Dick Vitale
Diligence is not easy, but we can't reach our goals without it.
- Henry Cloud
Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
- Nick Vujicic
Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.
- Thomas Monson
Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
- Les Brown
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- St. Augustine
Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.
- Ignatius of Loyola
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein