Effort And Success Quotes

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there – or failing to get there.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The harder I work the more I live.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo 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 street sweeper who did his job well.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.