Motivational Quotes

Effort

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

- Janicki, H.

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Ruopp, Harold

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Danforth, William

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Hill, Napoleon

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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

Lawrence, D. H.

11.

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

12.

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

Buddha

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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

17.

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

Browning, Robert

18.

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

19.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

21.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Proverb

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The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

Mackay, Charles

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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Garfield, James A.

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

28.

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

Bird, Larry

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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.

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Dumas, Alexandre

35.

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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The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

37.

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

38.

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Taft, Robert A.

40.

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

41.

If a man has done his best, what else is there?

Patton, George S.

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

Pope John I

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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

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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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