1,905 Quotes About Effort

Dreams are whispers of our ambitions, which guide us in the right direction and our actions are the means of transportation to achieve them.

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.

Optimism is an effort.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

If someone made a lot of money with minimal effort, it probably means they betrayed either themselves or others.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests, but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.