Top 200 Effort Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.”

— Denis Waitley

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2. “There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.”

— Mark Cuban

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3. “There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.”

— Nora Roberts

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4. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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5. “Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.”

— Denis Waitley

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6. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

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7. “Success isn’t something you chase. It’s something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it’ll come when you least expect it. Most people don’t understand that.”

— Michael Jordan

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8. “Our daily objectives should include an honest effort to improve on yesterday.”

— Zig Ziglar

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9. “Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.”

— Les Brown

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10. “Get maximum effect from minimum effort.”

— Bruce Lee

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11. “I never blame failure – there are too many complicated situations in life – but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. “Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.”

— Epictetus

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13. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

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14. “Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up.”

— John C. Maxwell

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15. “You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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16. “If you start today to do the right thing, you are already a success even if it doesn’t show yet.”

— John C. Maxwell

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17. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

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18. “Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.”

— William Arthur Ward

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19. “Don’t expect front row seats if you’re giving nosebleed effort.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Work, Hustle Quotes, Dedication Quotes

20. “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

— Bruce Lee

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21. “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

Also featured in: Goal Quotes

22. “I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”

— David Goggins

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23. “Wanting to win isn’t enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.”

— John C. Maxwell

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24. “The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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25. “We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? We make our own destiny.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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26. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

— Og Mandino

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27. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”

— Napoleon Hill

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28. “The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.”

— Ray Lewis

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29. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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30. “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Science Quotes

31. “Do not think that what is hard for you to master is humanly impossible; but if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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32. “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.”

— Muhammad Ali

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33. “The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”

— Napoleon Hill

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34. “Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”

— George E. Woodberry

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Determination Quotes

35. “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

— Barack Obama

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36. “Effort is grossly underrated.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

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37. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.”

— Jillian Michaels

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38. “If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

— Bruce Lee

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39. “Fight for your dreams, and your dreams will fight for you.”

— Paulo Coelho

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40. “People are rewarded in public for what they practice for years in private.”

— Tony Robbins

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41. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

— Jane Goodall

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42. “You can always do more than you think you can.”

— John Wooden

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43. “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

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44. “Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it.”

— Marva Collins

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45. “Personal power is the ability to take action.”

— Tony Robbins

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46. “The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.”

— Michael Josephson

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47. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”

— Vince Lombardi

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48. “Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge that. Because effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

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49. “I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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50. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

— Dean Karnazes

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