23 Movie Quotes about Effort (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about effort, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I was just trying to decide what was the most amount of honey, for the least amount of climb.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

2 Hmm. This is going to take some serious practicizing.

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

3 He's sweating up a storm. He's sweating away to nothing! -He's melting! Get a bucket! We have to save him!

Quote from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 I'll try very hard to remember you at reward time.

Christopher Lloyd as Merlock in DuckTales: The Movie (1990)

5 Only effort, discipline, loyalty earn the right to wear the dragon dogi.

Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

6 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Bob Newhart as Bernard in The Rescuers (1977)

7 In my humble effort to amuse your fiancée, I was telling her some rather grim tales of my far-off country.

Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula in Dracula (1931)

8 Yes, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

9 A for effort.

Quote from The Tingler (1959)

10 Do you make an effort to be obnoxious or is it a gift? -It's a gift.

Quote from In the Line of Fire