The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. -Denis Waitley
The harder I work the more I live. -George Bernard Shaw
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. -James A. Garfield
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. -Jose Bergamin
Put the uncommon effort into the common task.. make it large by doing it in a great way. -Orison Swett Marden
If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did. -Mike Ditka
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. -J. G. Holland
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -Calvin Coolidge
The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything. -Mark Cuban
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. -Napoleon Hill
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. -George Halas
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. -Robert Breault
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. -Elbert Hubbard
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. -Warren Buffett
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. -Mario Andretti
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. -Booker T. Washington
The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort. -Bud Wilkinson
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await. -Helen Keller
No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available. -Daniel Dennett
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. -William James
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. -Ramana Maharshi
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. -Zig Ziglar
Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck. -Eliezer Yudkowsky
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out. -Robert Collier
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it. -John C. Maxwell
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen. -Ken Venturi
Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more. -Carter Ratcliff
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. -John Wooden
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. -Joseph Heller
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. -John D. Rockefeller
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes. -Roger McDonald
Efforts can succeed over time, and not trying ensures that the worst will happen. -Noam Chomsky
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. -Paul Coffey
Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort. -Russell Simmons
Winning doesn't always mean being first. Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before. -Bonnie Blair
Remember, results aren't the criteria for success ..it's the effort made for achievement that is most important. -John Wooden
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