We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
Tom Robbins

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Reggie White

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

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.

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

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.
Haitian proverb

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

If you can’t excell with talent, triumph with effort.
Dave Weinbaum

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.
Sidney J. Phillips

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

We are responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

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

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – and never knowing.
David Viscott

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
Antonio Porchia

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

I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jos� Ortega y Gassett

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

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 essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

The footprint of the owner is the best manure.
English Proverb

Earned with the sweat of my brows.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do
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Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers

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

Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor.
Samuel Johnson

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
Daisaku Ikeda