1,905 Quotes About Effort
- Author Joe Namath
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If you're not gonna go all the way, why go at all?
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- Author Sunday Adelaja
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Schedule time for focused effort.
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- Author Kamal Ravikant
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If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
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- Author Mary Shelley
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The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.
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- Author Vera Nazarian
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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
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- Author Ivan Illich
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Activity, effort, achievement, or service outside a hierarchical relationship and unmeasured by professional standards, threatens a commodity-intensive society.
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- Author Ivan Illich
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In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time explaining what God did with those pagans who were visibly virtuous or saintly. Similarly, in contemporary society effort is not productive unless it is done at the behest of a boss, and economists have a hard time dealing with the obvious usefulness of people when they are outside the corporate control of a corporation, volunteer agency, or labour camp.
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- Author Sunday Adelaja
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In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
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- Author Winston S. Churchill
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It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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