2. “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it, nothing great was ever achieved.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.” – Theodore Roosevelt
4. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.” – Jim Rohn
5. “The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs.” – Zig Ziglar
6. “All the so-called ‘secrets of success,’ will not work unless you do.” – Anonymous
7. “Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.” – Robin Sharma
8. “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln
9. “Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.” – Aeschylus
10. “All the effort in the world won’t matter if you’re not inspired.” – Chuck Palahniuk
11. “Do the work. Everyone wants to be successful, but nobody wants to do the work.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
12. “No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want.” – Theodore Roosevelt
13. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” – David Bly
14. “Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” – John F. Kennedy
15. “The amount of effort you put in is the amount of results you end up with.” – Catherine Pulsifer
16. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller
17. “Success is dependent on effort.” – Sophocles
18. “A great thing can only be done by a great person, and they do it without effort.” – John Ruskin
19. “Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.” – Michael Jordan
20. “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.” – Mahatma Gandhi
21. “If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you.” – Michael Jordan
22. “Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.” – Mahatma Gandhi
23. “The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one’s own efforts.” – Albert Einstein
24. “The key to being successful in life and with your business is focus, knowing how and where to focus your time and efforts.” – Pat Williams
25. “The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” – Helen Keller
26. “The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.” – Colin Powell
27. “Quality is never an accident. It is the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin
28. “Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston Churchill
29. “Plough deep while sluggards sleep.” – Benjamin Franklin
30. “Hope is wishing for a thing to come true. Faith is believing it will come true. Work is making it come true.” – Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
31. “Thinking well is wise; planning well wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.” – Persian Proverb
32. “Much effort, much prosperity.” – Euripides
33. “Effort, which is between you and you. Nobody else can give you effort. Effort is what is inside.” –
34. “The only thing that has kept me around is my effort.” – Ray Lewis
35. “Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” – Helen Keller
36. “I have always said that my inspiration is society, the world we live in.” – Vikrant Massey
37. “Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be—in your power.” – John Wooden
38. “You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius
39. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” – James Allen
40. “Confidence is not something that comes out of nowhere. It is the result of—practice, constant work, effort, and determination.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
41. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” – Napoleon Hill
42. “Effort is the extension of the will; without a will, without determination, there can be no effort.” – Byron Pulsifer
43. “Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.” – John C. Maxwell
44. “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” – José Ortega y Gasset
45. “Success is more of a lifestyle but a lifestyle with purpose. When your life is prioritized, you will begin to prosper.” – William A. McLean
46. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” – Theodore Roosevelt
47. “There is no substitute for work.” – Vince Lombardi
48. “Expect only the best from life and take action to get it.” – Catherine Pulsifer
49. “Every effort in life is marked down as a win or loss.” – Edward Bennett Williams
50. “Life is not just about doing everything at once, nor is it about having everything you want or desire without the effort, struggle, or failures that are encountered.” – Byron Pulsifer
51. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
52. “Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.” – Pat Riley
53. “We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” – Anonymous
54. “The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
55. “Success in anything will always come down to this: focus and effort, and we control both of them.” –
56. “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown
57. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
58. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” – Earl Nightingale
59. “Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.” – Anonymous
60. “A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn into a glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard
61. “The view is better when it is earned.” – Anonymous
62. “Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.” – John Wooden
63. “Hard work is a precious gift. If you’re able to work hard, then success will surely be yours.” – Michael Crews
64. “When I was young, I observed that 9 out of 10 things I did were failures. So, I did 10 times more work.” – George Bernard Shaw
65. “As one makes an impartial study of successful people, one is drawn to the inevitable conclusion that persistence, concentration of effort and definiteness of purpose are the major sources of their achievements.” – Napoleon Hill
66. “No one succeeds without effort, those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” – Ramana Maharshi
67. “By identifying the 20% of efforts that matter most and produce the greatest results, anyone can save time, improve performance, and simplify their life.” – Michael Linsin
68. “Always make the needed effort to bring success into your reality.” – Jason Edward Shiffman
69. “People that have grit are extraordinarily resilient and are willing to put in the effort to get things done.” – Lee David Daniels
70. “It takes a lot of effort to do things effortlessly.” – Alexander Den Heijer
71. “A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.” – Muriel Strode
72. “Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.” – Zig Ziglar
73. “Create your own flow of abilities, then swim in the stream you choose.” – Marilyn Atkinson
74. “Every day of my life, I make an effort. Like, everything’s an effort—a good effort.” – Finn Jones
75. “Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort in your life and in relationship with others makes all the difference.” – Marilyn Atkinson
76. “You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.” – Paulo Coelho
77. “Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. Give your dreams all you’ve got and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.” – William James
78. “Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men and women who kept on working.” – Anonymous
79. “Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.” – Arnold Palmer
80. “If you can’t excel with talent, triumph with effort.” – Dave Weinbaum
81. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.” – Denis Waitley
82. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
83. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.” – Les Brown
84. “Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa
85. “The man who succeeds is a man who has withstood the tests of time, trials, and has made every effort count.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
86. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
87. “Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.” – Lowell Thomas
88. “Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
89. “Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.” – Vince Lombardi
90. “Make every effort matter, and always make the following effort better than the last one.” – Hermann J. Steinherr
91. “One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.” – John Wanamaker
92. “The only two things in this world you can control are your effort and your attitude.” – Sue Enquist
93. “I don’t know where you get the spark to start, only how to fan it into an inferno once you have it.” – Nick Winter
94. “You get what you give. Next time you want something, give it all you got never forget.” – Rachana Rachel Carter
95. “Failure is something many people take great efforts to avoid but failure is essential for growth and learning.” – Maxwell Maltz
96. “When we make the effort for each other, it makes the difference.” – Kylian Mbappe
97. “No one knows how big your potential is when you start.” – Muggsy Bogues
98. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder
99. “You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.” – Anonymous
100. “If a man is called a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
101. “‘I can’ is 100 times more important than IQ.” – Anonymous
102. “About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.” – Gloria Pitzer
103. “If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.” – Mark Twain
104. “Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.” – Heywood Hale Broun
105. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.” – Emile Zola
106. “The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
107. “There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.” – Mark Burnett
108. “Put in five percent more effort than ‘there’s only so much I can do,’ and you’ll be way ahead of the game.” – Terri Guillemets
109. “The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.” – Anonymous
110. “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.” – Ann Landers
111. “Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.” – Edward H. Harriman
112. “The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands to his full stature.” – Arnold Bennett
113. “I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
114. “People are rewarded in public for what they’ve practiced for years in private.” – Anthony Robbins
115. “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” – Henry J. Kaiser
116. “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” – Samuel Johnson
117. “Each man is the smith of his own fortune.” – Appius Claudius
118. “The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
119. “Hard work isn’t what you think it is. It’s more about love.” – Michael Crews
120. “Sometimes, our actions are much more meaningful than words.” – Catherine Pulsifer
121. “A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.” – George S. Patton
122. “The value of a man resides in what he gives.” – Albert Einstein
123. “It can be a shock for people to realize it still takes time and effort to realize a dream.” – Steve Supple
124. “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Seneca
125. “Work is different than relationships. You can’t take the skills and apply them to your relationships.” – Tracy McMillan
126. “Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.” – John Wanamaker
127. “A sequence works in a way a collection never can.” – George Murray
128. “I am grinding while you’re sleeping.” – Gary Vaynerchuk
129. “There’s not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beaten me to the ball every play. That ain’t got nothing to do with talent, that’s just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else.” – Ray Lewis
130. “They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.” – Swami Venkatesananda
131. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” – T.S. Eliot
132. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
133. “The level path is easy, but it will not bring you to the mountaintop.” – Dr. Idel Dreimer
134. “What you get from life will be direct proportion to what you give to life.” – Gail Lynne Goodwin
135. “Just because the office is casual doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make an effort.” – Tan France
136. “Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
137. “The perception that luck plays in a lot of aspects of life is the erosion of what effort it takes to move the yardsticks forward.” – Catherine Pulsifer
138. “Men are made stronger on the realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.” – Sidney J. Phillips
139. “Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.” – Sam Ewing
140. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.” – Napoleon Hill
141. “The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.” – Vince Lombardi
142. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” – Napoleon Hill
143. “It’s the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.” – Claude M. Bristol
144. “Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood, and tears and effort in the gym every day.” – Gabby Douglas
145. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson
146. “It doesn’t matter if you lose, it matters if you don’t try.” – Anonymous
147. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale
148. “God doesn’t require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.” – Mother Teresa
149. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
150. “No bees, no honey. No work, no money.” – Anonymous
151. “Self-control is true power.” – Marco Pierre White
152. “There is often a much simpler way of doing things if you make the effort to look for it.” – Edward de Bono
153. “The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.” – Bum Phillips
154. “I appreciate effort. No matter how small, silly, or irrelevant.“ – Billy Chapata
155. “Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.” – Tim Fargo
156. “Again, it helps to have the company of someone who can inspire you to put in your best efforts. Inspiration will help you remain on track and do more in less time.” – Jill Hesson
157. “If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?” – Joe Namath
158. “No more effort is required to dream big, to demand abundance and personal prosperity, than is required to accept poverty and misery.” – Vic Johnson
159. “Potential is a lot more than intelligence, and a lot more than strength. However, when strength and intelligence is married with effort, you have found a winning combination.” – Byron Pulsifer
160. “The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.” – Bruce Lee
161. “The best sort of character, however, cannot be formed without effort.” – Samuel Smiles
162. “Mental toughness with extreme effort is the formula for success.” – Mark Wiggins
163. “To double your gains, you have to triple your effort.” – Anonymous
164. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.” – Zig Ziglar
165. “It takes superhuman effort to focus on a task when you’re surrounded by distractions. But when you remove distractions in advance, no such effort is required: concentration flows.” – Nick Winter
166. “You can also work more creatively, or you can do anything that enables you to get greater leverage and results from your efforts.” – Brian Tracy
167. “Do not give up when trying to change a habit. It takes hard work, a conscious continuous effort, and a dedicated soul to continue when times get tough.” – Catherine Pulsifer
168. “What seems to motivate people has to do with the results of their own efforts and the feeling that they are contributing to the overall success of the enterprise.” – Kate Keenan
169. “Once we learn how to decide and act, we’ll become efficient and productive with far less effort.” – Jeremy Lubremeyer
170. “Also, be sure to offer constant positive reinforcement and praise for their efforts as this will motivate and inspire them to persevere.” – Katrina Kahler
171. “Effort is one of those things that give meaning to life.” – Carol Dweck
172. “When you first begin a project, you may only have enough time to do a little. Over time, however, what may first appear to be small efforts will multiply and end up being significant!” – Catherine Pulsifer
173. “Acknowledge what you want, make an effort to achieve it without worrying about how old you are.” – Sari Puhakka
174. “Never did I imagine luck as something I could create with my own effort. But it made sense.” – Anthony Frasier
175. “It is the effort that matters and it is the effort that God cares about. Do your best and God will do the rest, and you will be exactly where you are currently meant to be.” – Timothy McGaffin II
176. “In order to achieve great things, you must stretch your beliefs, your efforts, and your tolerance.” – Brian Cagneey
177. “It still takes a serious commitment and honest effort for your goals to come to fruition.” – Alex Altman
178. “Encouragement and faithfulness demonstrate the value of a friend. Be a friend, it’s worth the effort.” – Martin Murphy
179. “In our world, kindness motivates people to different levels of effort, and these works give birth to an expectation that one imagines will in some way benefit them in return.” – Gerald Campbell