A carefully curated collection of individual effort quotes from writers, thinkers and voices worth listening to. Whether you need a quick boost or a deeper moment of reflection, these words are here to help.

Some of the most celebrated individual effort quotes come from Mother Teresa, among many others featured on this page.

Popular individual effort quotes include: "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." -- Mother Teresa.