Effort Quotes

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
- Leo F. Buscagli

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
- Orison Swett Marden

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.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

To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
- Phillip Brooks

Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
- Patanjali

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
- Zig Ziglar

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
- Pat Riley

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- J.G. Holland