You cant have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic. ~Author Unknown All the so-called secrets of success will not work unless you do. ~Author Unknown You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Author Unknown Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. ~Edward H. Harriman God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ~J.G. Holland The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. ~Coleman Cox, 1922 (Thanks, Garson OToole of quoteinvestigator Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966 Ive got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. ~Author Unknown No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin The reason most people do not recognize an opportunity when they meet it is because it usually goes around wearing overalls and looking like Hard Work. ~Author unknown, printed uncredited in Logansport Pharos Tribune(Indiana), May 18th 1921, later commonly attributed to Thomas Edison(Thanks, Garson OToole of quoteinvestigator Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. ~Sidney J. Phillips The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. ~Garth Henrichs He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ~Friedrich Nietzsche The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. ~George Bernard Shaw Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~Swami Sivananda Now I know, a refuge never grows from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. ~Indigo Girls Theres nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. ~Mark Burnett Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some dont turn up at all. ~Sam Ewing Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it. ~Author Unknown The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb Those at the top of the mountain didnt fall there. ~Author Unknown Even if youre on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there. ~Will Rogers All that you do, do with your might. Things done by halves are never done right. ~Author Unknown We all have a path to take; sometimes its hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little. ~Mike Dolan, hawaiianlife Most of us can easily do two things at once; whats all but impossible is to do one thing at once. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotics Notebook, 1966 Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. Its not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when youve had everything to do, and youve done it. ~Margaret Thatcher The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. ~Sarah Brown Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. ~Heywood Hale Broun Give your dreams all youve got and youll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. ~William James If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ~José Ortega y Gassett People know you for what youve done, not for what you plan to do. ~Author Unknown 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,howtomatter We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My morning choices are having a good tussle. Procrastination was winning, but Make Your Bed & Good Breakfast just kicked his butt. ~Betsy Cañas Garmon, wildthymecreative (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 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 Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. ~Ulysses S. Grant 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 Monthly, April 1862 Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb 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. ~Author Unknown Doors dont slam open. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) 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 About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ~Gloria Pitzer It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they dont have to. ~Walter Linn Many people think they want things, but they dont really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. ~Sophia Loren Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ~Chinese Proverb We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot If you can do a half-assed job of anything, youre a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now. ~Swami Venkatesananda [Y]our life is a journey, not a rest. You are travelling to the promised land, from the cradle to the grave. ~The Sunday at Home, December 7th 1854 No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. ~Plutarch He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. ~Dutch Proverb To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. ~Confucius, Analects Page Information: quotegarden/effort.html Last modified 2014 Aug 16 Sat 09:38 PDT HOME Search Browse Site Info Privacy
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