Quotes about Effort

Work is the miracle by which talent is brought to the surface and dreams become reality.

Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.

God is limitless in His love, and asks that we at least make the effort to be limitless in ours.

The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

A good life is made by accumulating in the course of a lifetime everything that is really good and by wanting nothing that impedes or frustrates this effort.

It is not the stretching that tires you, but the frustration of stretching unsuccessfully because you lack the skill to stretch effectively.

One reader is better than another in proportion as he is capable of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort. He is better if he demands more of himself and of the text before him.

Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins. If your case is properly prepared and presented, your victory will have been more than half won at the outset.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy. The very fact that you are a complainer, shows that you deserve your lot; shows that you lack that faith which is the ground of all effort and progress.