Effort Quotes

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
- American Proverb

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying, I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
- Seneca

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
- William Penn

Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
- Shelby Steele

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
- George Santayana

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy