35 Effort Quotes to Propel You Toward Success

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Making progress often feels slow, and effort becomes part of our daily life. We work hard, give our time, and still face doubt, stress, or tired moments. Effort quotes help us remember that success often grows from patience and steady action. Small steps, repeated many times, can slowly move us closer to goals.

Success usually comes after many tries, not after one perfect moment. We put effort into work, study, dreams, and personal goals, yet challenges keep coming. Effort quotes speak to these real moments and offer quiet encouragement. They remind us to keep going even when results feel far away.

Here, we’ll explore some of the best-effort quotes that will inspire us to do better in life. Let's check them out.

1. "For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward." – Jim Rohn

2. "I am grinding while you're sleeping." – Gary Vaynerchuk

3. "Plough deep while sluggards sleep." – Benjamin Franklin

4. "All the so-called 'secrets of success' will not work unless you do." – Anonymous

5. "The only thing that has kept me around is my effort." – Ray Lewis

6. "Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt." – José Ortega y Gassett

7. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." – Will Rogers

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

9. "Ideas don't work for people unwilling to do the work." – Robin Sharma

10. "Effort is grossly underrated." – Gary Vaynerchuk

11. "The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort." – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

12. "Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is." – Zig Ziglar

13. "I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end." – Larry Bird

14. "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." – Dave Weinbaum

15. "You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic." – Anonymous

16. "An industrious dunce is often more successful in life than his learned neighbor." – James Lendall Basford

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

18. "I CAN is 100 times more important than IQ" – Anonymous

19. "Success is dependent on effort." – Sophocles

20. "Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory." - Mahatma Gandhi

1. "Continuous Effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential." – Winston Churchill

2. "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

3. "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." – William James

4. "A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work." – Muriel Strode

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

8. "There's not a person on my team in 16 years that has consistently beat me to the ball every play. That ain't got nothing to do with talent, That's just got everything to do with effort, and nothing else." – Ray Lewis

9. "All I ever knew, was that effort would get me seen on tape, effort would get me noticed to get to the league, effort would one day take care of my mom and my kids. Effort, which is between you and you. Nobody else can give you effort. Effort is what is inside" – Ray Lewis

10. "A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard

11. "If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges." - Pat Riley

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

13. "All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - Calvin Coolidge

14. "Talent without effort is wasted talent. And while effort is the one thing you can control in your life, applying that effort intelligently is next on the list." - Mark Cuban

15. "The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply." - Denis Waitley