Effort Quotes

“Make an Effort”

— Juanita Betts-Graves

“You need to try.”

— Emily J. Proctor

Fame is a constant effort

— Jules Renard

Only super-efforts count.

— Anonymous

Genuine effort is success.

— Vernon Howard

It was a titanic effort.

— Glenn Hoddle

Hope is man's inner effort.

— Sri Chinmoy

Effort supposes resistance.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Why be fake when being real takes no effort?

— Cuts And Scars

Bravery without wisdom amounts to wasted effort.

— Frank Matobo

“There is no greater path than the act of listening.”

— Bryant McGill

The one thing you can control is effort.

— Malik Jackson

Nothing works without effort

— Spido

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

— Harrison Ford

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

— Guillermo del Toro

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

— Isabella Blow

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

— Willa Cather

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

— Richard Koch

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

— Anonymous

Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen.

— Noam Chomsky

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

— Thomas Becket

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

— Mark Burnett

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

— Stephenie Meyer

I started watching, growing, learning, and putting in extra effort to become the best queen I could.

— Shangela

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in…

— Ella Baker

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do…

— Carter G. Woodson

Effort is a two way street. I don't want to hear about my minimal effort when the other party puts no effort…

— Anonymous

“We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one…

— Philip K. Dick

Lurch's quietness is a result of personal dignity. He appreciates things of quality. His greatest joy is playing Bach on the harpsichord,…

— Ted Cassidy

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you…

— Davis Levy

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but…

— Anton Chekhov

Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do…

— Maggie Q

It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve…

— Dalai Lama

For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a…

— Wilfred Thesiger

Courage is required to make an initial thrust toward one's coveted goal, but even greater courage is called for when one stumbles…

— Thomas S. Monson

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the…

— Diana Nyad

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived…

— Wole Soyinka