Personal Effort Quotes

“The dictionary is the only place success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must all pay for success.”
- Vince Lombardi

The genius that dazzles most men’s eyes is simply hard work in disguise.
– Thomas Edison

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: Those who do the work, and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
– Indira Gandhi

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice, and poverty.
– Voltaire

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
- Henry Ford

“If people know how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”
- Michelangelo

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
- Napolean Hill

“There is no way out. There is no way back, there is no other way but through! Take the plunge! Face whatever you have to face – and get it over with.”
- Claude M. Bristol

“To quit while we’re ahead would be silly; to quit when we’re behind is even sillier. It requires will to hold on a little longer.”
- Louis Binstock

“Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish to the crowd.”
- I Ching

The man who says “It can’t be done” should not interrupt the man who is doing it.
- Chinese Proverb