People know you for what you’ve done, not for what you plan to do.
- Author Unknown

Success is dependent on effort.
- Sophocles

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
- Mark Burnett

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- Mignon McLaughlin

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
- Mignon McLaughlin

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

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
- John Fischer

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer

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

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas Gandhi

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Jim Rohn

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
- Author Unknown

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
- James Allen

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
- Colin Powell

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
- Robert Brault

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Benjamin Franklin

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- Chuck Palahniuk

He was a self made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
- Joseph Heller

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
- Calvin Coolidge

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Author Unknown

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin