Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
- Jose Ortega y Gassett
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
- Albert Einstein
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
- Elbert Hubbard
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer
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 mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
- J.G. Holland
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
- Pat Riley
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
- Zig Ziglar
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
- Patanjali
Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To say 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
- Phillip Brooks
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
- George Santayana
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
- Orison Swett Marden
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
- Leo F. Buscagli
Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
- George Santayana
Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.
- Shelby Steele
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
- William Penn
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
- Seneca
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi
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
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
- American Proverb
