A good effort is not necessarily our best. And our best effort is not necessarily good.

Optimism is an effort.

Most poor people do not deserve to be rich.

Like fear, doubt greatly reduces the potency of our effort.

Unlike existing, living requires effort.

A genius is produced not by a woman’s womb but by a man’s efforts.

Talent is given to us by our nature. Greatness, by our efforts.

There is not necessarily a correlation between how much time or effort a thing demands and how important or useful it is.

Some people would have achieved way more if they had never prayed.