Quotes about Effort
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
- Elias Canetti
Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
- George Washington Carver
You must learn to translate wisdom and strong feelings into labor.
- Jim Rohn
If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
- George W. Bush
Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.
- Bishop TD Jakes
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
- Lucille Ball
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
- Calvin Coolidge
As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.
- Bob Marley
I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
- Teresa of Avila
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
- Frederick Douglass