Motivational Quotes

Effort

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

- Jenner, Bruce

Best Quotes about Effort

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.

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

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

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bird, Larry

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

Truman, Harry S

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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

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Browning, Robert

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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.

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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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Occam, William Of

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

Janicki, H.

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

Lessing, Gotthold

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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Proverb

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

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Powell, Colin

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Danforth, William

38.

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

40.

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

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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

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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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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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