Top 200 Effort Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.”

— Walt Disney

52. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

53. “What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?”

— Carol S. Dweck

54. “The only thing in your control is effort. That’s all, and that’s everything.”

— Mark Cuban

55. “What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?”

— John Green

56. “If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”

— Bruce Lee

57. “If you trust in yourself... and believe in your dreams... and follow your star... you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy.”

— Terry Pratchett

58. “There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

59. “There is no substitute for hard work.”

— Thomas A. Edison

60. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

— Benjamin Franklin

61. “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

— Steve Prefontaine

62. “The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

63. “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.”

— Florence Nightingale

64. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

— Lou Holtz

65. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

66. “You will never ‘find’ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”

— Charles Buxton

67. “So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.”

— Caterina Fake

68. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.”

— Walt Disney

69. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

— Stephen King

70. “Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day.”

— Rory Vaden

71. “Life doesn’t reward the naturally clever or strong but those who can learn to fight and work hard and never quit.”

— Bear Grylls

72. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.”

— Paulo Coelho

73. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out.”

— Steve Jobs

74. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”

— Buddha

75. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”

— Robert Collier

76. “There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”

— Marianne Williamson

77. “A man who wants to make a relationship work will move mountains to keep the woman he loves.”

— Greg Behrendt

78. “Work for a better life as if you’ll live forever, and work for a better end as if you’ll die tomorrow.”

— Imam Ali

79. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

80. “People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.”

— Joel Osteen

81. “Monday, I grind. Tuesday, I grind. Wednesday, I grind. Thursday, I grind. Friday, I grind. Saturday, I grind. Sunday, I grind. And, that’s why I’m here today.”

— Eric Thomas

82. “Some of you love sleep more than you love success. If you want to be successful, you gotta be willing to give up sleep. If you go to sleep, you might miss the opportunity to be successful.”

— Eric Thomas

83. “The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

— Napoleon Hill

84. “There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.”

— Will Smith

85. “Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.”

— John Wooden

86. “Do your best and God will do the rest.”

— Nick Vujicic

87. “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”

— John Wooden

88. “Communication works for those who work at it.”

— John Powell

89. “Don’t let fatigue make a coward out of you.”

— Steve Prefontaine

90. “You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

91. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

92. “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

— Napoleon

93. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

94. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”

— Tony Robbins

95. “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”

— Stephen King

96. “Don’t worry about what you can’t control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control...”

— Tim Tebow

97. “We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.”

— Abdul Kalam

98. “The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.”

— Eric Thomas

99. “Step by step, walk the thousand-mile road.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

100. “Do your best and let God do the rest.”

— Ben Carson