•“There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile” 
― Jeff Dixon

•“We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.”

•“The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.” 
― Lionel Shriver

•“An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.”
― Lydia M. Child 

•“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” 
― Samuel Johnson

•“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.” 
― Chuck Palahniuk

•“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
― Henry David Thoreau 

•“Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.” 
― Sandra Day O'Connor

•“Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

•“Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.” 
― Lloyd Jones

•“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.” 
― Chuck Palahniuk

•“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” 
― Thomas Jefferson

•“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.”
― Leonard Woolf 

•“Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.” 
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

•“The elevator to success is not running; you must climb the stairs. ”

•“A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.”
― John Ruskin 

•“He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.”
― Paul Brunton

•“Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.”
― Chinua Achebe 

•“We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.”

•“For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer   

•“Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.” 
― Elbert Hubbard

•“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
― John Ruskin 

•“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

•“It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” 
― Winston Churchill

•“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston Churchill 

•“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.”
― Igor Stravinsky 

•“People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.” 
― Marguerite de Navarre

•“God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.”

•“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”
― Napoleon Hill 

•“If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.” 
― Emily Brontë

•“The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.”

•“The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.” 
― Ashly Lorenzana

•“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson