1,905 Quotes About Effort

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?""Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Walls don't fall without effort.