25 Movie Quotes about Effort (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Sep 20, 2025

Memorable quotes about effort, selected from famous or less known movies 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!

Paul Winchell as Tigger; Paul Winchell as Rabbit in 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 Stop, I say, stop it, boy. You're doing a lot of chopping but no chips are flying.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

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

Bob Newhart as Bernard in The Rescuers (1977)

8 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)

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

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

10 A for effort.

Vincent Price as Dr. Warren Chapin in The Tingler (1959)

25 Movie Quotes about Effort (+ Sound Clips)

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