(6267 quotes found)
“Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.”
Denis Waitley
“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.”
Paul J. Meyer
“Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up”
Henry David Thoreau
“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”
Napoleon Hill
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.”
Helen Keller
“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”
Patanjali
“To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled -- because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.”
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
“Only those, who work hard can think of achieving something. Sitting idle or hoping for results without making any effort is nothing but foolishness. ”
Sam Veda
