Quotes about Effort

Nothing worth having comes without a price.

Souls cannot be saved without exertion.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

If you are one of those who believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It is not true!

Make it your business to render more service and better service than that for which you are paid, and lo! before you realize what has happened, you will find that the world is willingly paying you for MORE THAN YOU DO!

The salesman who knows how to take his mind off the subject of sex, and direct it in sales effort with as much enthusiasm and determination as he would apply to its original purpose, has acquired the art of sex transmutation, whether he knows it or not.

Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized.

The concept of "trying" implies an ongoing effort. You don't want to try; you want to succeed. If you ask your subconscious to help you "try," it may do just that. It may help you try, but it will prevent you from succeeding—because if you did succeed, then it could no longer help you "try," which is what you asked it to do.

Some individuals appear to be "allergic" to honest work, but opportunity is equally allergic to them.

When the going is hardest, just keep on keeping on, and you'll get there sooner than someone who finds the going easy.

Fortunate, indeed, is the person who has discovered how to give sex emotion an outlet through some form of creative effort, for he has, by that discovery, lifted himself to the status of a genius.