Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Bennett, Arnold

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.

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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Pope John I

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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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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

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Jenner, Bruce

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

Bird, Larry

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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

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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.

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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

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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

Ball, Lucille

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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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Dresses, H. W.

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

Buddha

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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Occam, William Of

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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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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

Sher, Barbara

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

Ruopp, Harold

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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

Payton, Walter

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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Much effort, much prosperity.