Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.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

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

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

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.

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
-Tom Lehrer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
-Pat Riley

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

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

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

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