Quotes on effort
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Unknown, Author
People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.
Unknown, Author
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
Grant, Ulysses S.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Gibbon, Edward
God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose.
Unknown, Author
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Harriman, Edward H.
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
Proverb, Dutch
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
McLaughlin, Mignon
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Pitzer, Gloria
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Edison, Thomas
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
McLaughlin, Mignon
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
Unknown, Author
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Eliot, T.S.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Jefferson, Thomas
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Proverb, Chinese
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
Confucius
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
Burnett, Mark
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Sivananda, Swami
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
Vonnegut, Kurt
I worked hard my whole life - no one handed me a record deal.
Gaga, Lady
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Obama, Barack