Top 200 Effort Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, be more active, show up more often.”

— Brian Tracy

102. “If you’re not where you are. If you’re not where you want to be. If you don’t have what you want, want to have. If you’re not where you think you should be at this particular place. It has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you’re not making the sacrifice.”

— Eric Thomas

103. “Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”

— W. Clement Stone

104. “For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.”

— Jim Rohn

105. “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”

— Abdul Kalam

106. “Live with passion!”

— Tony Robbins

107. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

— Zig Ziglar

108. “You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.”

— Albert Camus

109. “Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.”

— Denis Waitley

110. “Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is.”

— Mark Cuban

111. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

112. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

113. “Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.”

— Henry Ford

114. “There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.”

— Roger Federer

115. “When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”

— Joyce Meyer

116. “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

— John F. Kennedy

117. “Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

— Oprah Winfrey

118. “Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.”

— Mason Cooley

119. “There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it.”

— Denis Waitley

120. “It’s not about the number of hours you practice, it’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice.”

— Kobe Bryant

121. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”

— Jay-Z

122. “Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.”

— William Arthur Ward

123. “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell them, “Certainly I can!”. Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

124. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

125. “Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action.”

— Bob Proctor

126. “Doing the little things can make a big difference.”

— Yogi Berra

127. “It’s not about money or connections. It’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.”

— Mark Cuban

128. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

129. “Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail.”

— Abdul Kalam

130. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.”

— Greg Reid

131. “Achievers have a can-do attitude that sets them apart from mere dreamers. Achievers are sold out to success-no matter the obstacles-and they are willing to put forth the effort and pay the price of success.”

— Jim Rohn

132. “My definition of success? The more you’re actively and practically engaged, the more successful you will be.”

— Richard Branson

133. “The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”

— Tyrese Gibson

134. “Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”

— Conan O'Brien

135. “Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.”

— Eckhart Tolle

136. “Effort is the siamese twin of success.”

— Shane Koyczan

137. “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

— Erich Fromm

138. “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

139. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Anything I’ve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. ”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

140. “Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

— Abdul Kalam

141. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

— Ayn Rand

142. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

143. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

144. “We will either find a way or make one.”

— Hannibal

145. “Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.”

— C.G. Jung

146. “Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.”

— Alan Cohen

147. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.”

— W. Clement Stone

148. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

149. “Activity leads to productivity.”

— Jim Rohn

150. “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”

— Abdul Kalam