Effortless means doing something easily without much work or effort.
It’s when something feels natural and doesn’t take much energy.
This idea applies to different parts of life like tasks activities or achievements. In short if something’s effortless it’s done with ease and almost no trouble.
Here is a collection of inspiring clever and funny effortless quotes and sayings curated over time from various places.
Effortless Quotes
To me, skating should look effortless even when you’re doing the hardest of elements. ~ Johnny Weir.
People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don’t always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that’s my goal. ~ Keith Michael.
What is the worth of a happiness for which you must strive and work? Real happiness is spontaneous and effortless. ~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
The act of ‘letting go’ is actually very easy – it’s effortless. Thinking about, talking about, and contemplating ‘letting go’ is hard. ~ Mike Brown.
Love is effortless attention. ~ Guy Finley.
When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless. ~ Rebecca Hall
Surrounding myself with people I enjoy being with made the sessions effortless. Everyone came prepared and ready to play. All were great musicians and they came to the studio to give everything they had. ~ Stanley Clarke.
Love is action. It’s clear, it’s kind, it’s effortless, and it’s irresistible. ~ Byron Katie
I love Drake — he is very talented and I like his effortless attitude in terms of his style and music. ~ Italo Zucchelli
Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture. ~ Richard Mabey.
If you come to a really religious man you will feel a grace around him, effortless. He has not done anything to himself, he has simply relaxed into the ultimate, and you feel the effortlessness around him. ~ Rajneesh.
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it’s possible to be an artist and a good person. ~ Connie Willis
My idea of happiness is effortless happiness. The things that ground you. For me it’s art and cooking, for example, and when I can be with my friends and the people I love and do simple things. That’s when I’m the happiest. ~ Gigi Hadid
When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy. ~ Charles Fleischer
Whenever I’ve worn trousers or a suit, it always makes me feel sexy but effortless and confident. ~ Sophie Cookson
Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed. ~ Mary McFadden
If I’ve gone to the market on Saturday, and I go another time on Tuesday, then I’m really prepared. I can cook a little piece of fish; I can wilt some greens with garlic; I can slice tomatoes and put a little olive oil on. It’s effortless. ~ Alice Waters
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray. ~ Richard Wilbur.
Best Effortless Quotes
I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was. ~ Peggy Fleming
It was our basic Irish summer day, irritatingly coy, all sun and skidding clouds and jackknifing breeze, ready at any second to make an effortless leap into bucketing rain or blazing sun or both. ~ Tana French
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refused to have anything as a gift. ~ Josef Pieper
when something is right, it will feel easier and much more effortless ~ Sherry Argov
Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don’t look squeaky clean. ~ Alexa Chung
A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy. ~ Stella McCartney
We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless. ~ Alexander Isley
Magazines and talk shows are filled with people who say that a successful marriage is hard and requires a lot of work. But to soulmates , their harmony often feels effortless, as though it is the most natural thing in the world to be completely at ease in a relationship . ~ Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. ~ Lester Levenson
What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone’s not put a lot of effort into their look. ~ Sara Blakely
But every spiteful word she ever wrote him was effortless love clenched in her fists. Her heart screaming for stability in this fiery game of desire. ~ Coco J. Ginger
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted. ~ Vilayanur S. Ramachandran.
Quotes about Effortless
The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, “We did it ourselves.” ~ Laozi
Usually a song being hard to write is a sign that the song isn’t good enough. It should be like a good kiss. Effortless and smooth. ~ Oh Land
Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It’s exactly like doing ballet. It’s hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it’s just the pleasure of dancing. ~ Carine Roitfeld
I record at the same place [Toe Rag or FatSounds Studios in London], with the same people [Liam Watson at Toe Rag and Ed Deegan at Fatsounds], every time. It makes it effortless, and another reason for the vast output when I do go in and record stuff. ~ Holly Golightly
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe. ~ Keith Johnstone
I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl – that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin. ~ Natalie Portman
Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely. ~ Margaret Mead
Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it’s improvised doesn’t mean it’s effortless and just because it’s effortless doesn’t necessarily mean it’s improvised. ~ Christoph Waltz
It is my observation that 98% of the people are spending 98% of their time focusing on the 98% of things that don’t matter. Stopping meditation is one of the easiest, quickest and most powerful forms of meditation. It is virtually effortless and its power relative to the effort is remarkable. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
Some photographers shoot hundreds of pictures in a row and you need to be able to move from pose to pose very quickly while trying to make it look effortless. ~ Jamie Eason
You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I’ve done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless, but there’s a lot of work that goes into it. ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
My daily style is easy and effortless – I don’t like to take too much time getting ready. ~ Kourtney Kardashian
Dean Magraw so liquid, lyrical and effortless it’s like listening to a dancer. ~ Steve Tibbetts
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes. ~ Geneen Roth
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it’s the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward… ~ Martha Beck
A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that’s problem! ~ Nina Dobrev
Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket. ~ Lubov Azria
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless ~ Zaha Hadid
I grew up riding horses and on the beach and I never really wore makeup and my mom showed that as an example. She wore makeup, just in a beautiful, effortless way. ~ Gigi Hadid
Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren’t just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated. ~ Gail Anderson-Dargatz.
Meaningful Effortless Quotes
When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease. ~ Deepak Chopra
L’Oreal’s slogan ‘because you’re worth it’ has come to epitomise banal narcissism of early 21st century capitalism; easy indulgence and effortless self-love all available at a flick of the credit card. ~ Geoff Mulgan
I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It’s effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice. ~ Russell Simmons
The first time I picked up a bat in a professional game, I hit a ball hard left-handed, and my first home run was so effortless, it surprised me. ~ Chili Davis
No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama’s story. But since the Inauguration, we’ve seen only the president’s present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle. ~ Dee Dee Myers
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn’t have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh. ~ Jessica Ennis
The key for hipsters is that they usually try really hard, but the important thing is they want to come across like they don’t try. To make it look effortless. I don’t mind. It really fits New York, the hipster look. ~ Henrik Lundqvist
It’s just my aesthetic: to want to feel a bit undone, effortless but not without style. ~ Yigal Azrouel
I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf – just effortless actors. ~ Jacob Latimore
If only it was effortless to understand you because if it wasn’t so. . .there wouldn’t be any point to be by your side. ~ Natsuki Takaya
Acting is never really effortless, at least not for me. It requires a massive amount of work. But, there’s definitely an added level of having to just create the whole thing again, every time. It’s also a very exciting thing, to do that. ~ Charlie Hunnam
Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as ‘keenly evocative.’ ~ Jimmy Carter
The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood’s dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer. ~ Stephen King
Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you’ll never have to work again. ~ Simon Sinek
You can’t suddenly say, ‘I want a brand new habit tomorrow,’ and expect it to be easy and effortless. ~ Charles Duhigg
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well. ~ Joe Hyams
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life. ~ Ramana Maharshi
I like to mix British classics, like a great trench, with fun vintage pieces I find in New York. L.A. style is often very relaxed and comfortable, and I appreciate that effortless feel. ~ Harley Viera-Newton
I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they’re fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example. ~ Blake Lively
What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it! ~ Diane von Furstenberg
Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. ~ Patanjali
Mark Twain on George Ade’s writing: I have been reading him [Ade] again, and my admiration overflows all limits. How effortless the limning! It is as if the work did itself, without help of the master’s hand. ~ George Ade
When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously. ~ Debbie Ford
Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former’s relentless experimentation, the latter’s effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category. ~ Vince Aletti
Self-realization is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. ~ Ramesh S Balsekar
I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up… He’s just so damn effortless. ~ Bob Dylan
I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style. ~ Vincent Cassel
When I’m running fast, I don’t feel anything, it’s effortless, it’s like my feet don’t even touch the ground, it’s like I’m flying. ~ Evelyn Ashford.
Famous Effortless Quotes
Cooking Lucky’ is a show for guys – or girls – or really for anyone who is all thumbs in the kitchen and needs some help cooking meals that are so incredibly impressive they make it look like you’ve been slaving in the kitchen all day when in reality, they are so effortless to put together that even a moron can do it. ~ Eden Riegel
Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It’s all about (appearing) effortless, yet there’s so much effort. You do it the best you can. ~ Kelli Williams
Wear something you feel gorgeous in and don’t try too hard; it’s much sexier when it appears effortless. Clothes that don’t fit, or don’t fit the wearer’s personality, don’t help. ~ Heidi Klum
To me, what’s sexy is when you look like you’re having a good time. That, and when you look effortless and have messy hair, ~ Kate Upton
It’s always been great to be onstage. It’s really effortless up there. It’s not a lot of work. ~ Tom Petty
The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless. ~ Josh Beckett
At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over. ~ Laura Hillenbrand
Stick around long enough to be someone’s friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. ~ Vera Nazarian
It’s [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don’t do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it’s the truth. ~ Michael Jackson
The line separating investment and speculation, which is never bright and clear, becomes blurred still further when most market participants have recently enjoyed triumphs. Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball. ~ Warren Buffett
I really enjoy being the child’s ‘welcoming committee’ and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me. ~ Erykah Badu
I think the ‘Lethal Weapon’ movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn’t look hard, it’s difficult to create ‘effortless’ on screen. ~ Mel Gibson
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless. ~ Norman Foster
Love springs from the heart. It is pure. And, that is what makes it effortless. If it must be good, it has to be felt with the heart. ~ Gladys Adevey
Each season I strive to design a forward-thinking and effortless collection with a very clean minimalist aesthetic. ~ Francisco Costa
I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic’s best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he’s doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ~ Richard Russo
My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard. ~ Bella Heathcote
I bumped into my cousin after she’d shaved her hair very short, and she looked incredible. She seemed so effortless and cool, and I wanted that. And, I’ve had it like that ever since. ~ Laura Mvula
Being effortless is the coolest thing in the world ~ Stella McCartney
I don’t write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. “Ornamental Hermit” was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me. ~ David Grubbs
There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‘Oh, you’re playing yourself.’ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‘Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.’ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part. ~ Matthew McConaughey
I’m exactly right for you, Bella. It would have been effortless for us comfortable, easy as breathing. I was the natural path your life would have taken” If the world was the way it was supposed to be, if there were no monsters and no magic ~ Stephenie Meyer
The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could at the same time welcome everyone’s experiences with the serenity of an effortless development. ~ Gae Aulenti
Mozart’s music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us. ~ Karl Barth.
Thoughtful Effortless Quotes
To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening. ~ Bryant McGill
Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos. ~ Steve Toltz
Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. ~ Warren Buffett
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. ~ Lynda Barry
[Dean Martin] my favourite out of everyone because there is a grace that he brings. What he did seemed so effortless. ~ Michael Buble
Macrame is effortless. ~ Catherine Malandrino
The language must be careful and must appear effortless. It must not sweat. It must suggest and be provocative at the same time. ~ Toni Morrison
It’s hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant. ~ Katarina Witt
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength. ~ Charlotte Bronte
Self-discipline is a rigorous process at best; too many of us want it to be effortless and painless. ~ Thomas S. Monson
Cary Grant never won an Oscar, primarily, I suspect, because he made everything look so effortless. Why reward someone for having fun, for being charming? ~ Richard Russo
You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and perfect. ~ Amit Ray
Luxury must have that over-the-top attitude but be effortless at the same time, that’s what feels chic to me. ~ Stefano Pilati
I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He’s a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless. ~ Kathryn Hahn
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing ~ Adyashanti
Embrace an effortless a-line silhouette in the seasons must have indigo shades. ~ Lubov Azria
What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn’t want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen. ~ Stanley Donen
Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights. ~ Roger Ebert
If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life. ~ Anne Hathaway
The times when I am running the best are when it feels effortless. The body is on autopilot, doing what you have trained it to do. ~ Perdita Felicien
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Two people who I think have the world’s most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there’s something to being named Kate, I don’t know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous. ~ Sophia Bush
The Difference Between Dreams & Success Is, Dreams Need Effortless Sleep & Success Needs Sleepless Efforts ~ Akon
I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless but still chic! ~ Liya Kebede
Life as a Divine Creator is effortless. You don’t have to do things to make them happen; you call forth people, situations, and events from an inner decision of being. ~ Melanie
It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless. ~ Tim Walker
A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respond to the brief of a photographer or communicate the vision of a designer – while making whatever she does look utterly effortless and whatever she wears utterly seamless. ~ Erin O’Connor
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within. ~ David Lynch
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It’s good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport. ~ Tenzin Palmo
When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe’s infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease. ~ Deepak Chopra.
Ranting about her being hard to understand? Wait until you lose her. You will clearly understand, what an effortless power a woman has! ~ Manasa Rao Saarloos.
