65 Effort Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. – Jane Ellice Hopkins

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. – Emile Zola

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. – JosÃ© Ortega y Gassett

The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs. – Zig Ziglar

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

My morning choices are having a good tussle. Procrastination was winning, but Make Your Bed & Good Breakfast just kicked his butt. – Betsy CaÃ±as Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com (2009 tweet, @wildthyme)

Plough deep while sluggards sleep. – Benjamin Franklin

Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. – Chinese Saying

The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The view is better when it is earned. – Author Unknown

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. – T.S. Eliot

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. – Joseph de Maistre

Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl

Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. – American Proverb

God gave us two ends â€” one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. – Author Unknown

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com