Motivational Quotes

Effort

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Effort

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.

Payton, Walter

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Waitley, Denis

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Einstein, Albert

I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.

Danforth, William

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Suzuki, Shunryu

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

Waitley, Denis

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.

Williams, A.L.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Dumas, Alexandre

10.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

Mckay, David O.

11.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Buddha

12.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Rockefeller, John D.

13.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Ball, Lucille

14.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

15.

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.

16.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

17.

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.

Teixeira, Ada

18.

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

19.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.

Dresses, H. W.

20.

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

22.

If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Pope John I

23.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

25.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Guthrie, Janet

26.

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t.

Jenner, Bruce

27.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Truman, Harry S

28.

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

Fischer, John

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Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Bird, Larry

30.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Powell, Colin

31.

If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !

32.

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]

Bible

33.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

34.

It's the last inch that counts.

35.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Palmer, Arnold

36.

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Ruopp, Harold

37.

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

38.

champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!

Adler, Judi

39.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

Lerner, Max

41.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.

Berra, Yogi

42.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Keller, Helen

43.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

44.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

45.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

McLaughlin, Mignon

46.

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

Barfield, Jesse

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The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Browning, Robert

49.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Roosevelt, Theodore

50.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Snider, Duke