Much effort, much prosperity.
EURIPIDES, The Suppliant Women
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, as quoted in Wendy Toliver's Little Giant Encyclopedia of Inspirational Quotes
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET, as quoted in Jason A. Merchey's Building a Life of Value
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.
WILLIAM JAMES, Talks to Teachers on Psychology
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT, "The Strenuous Life," The Works of Theodore Roosevelt
All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
NAPOLEON HILL, as quoted in Bob Kelly's Worth Repeating
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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