Effort Quotes

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
- Larry Bird

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
- Jane Addams

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
- Albert Einstein

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- Jose Ortega y Gassett

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter F. Drucker