Motivational Quotes

Effort

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

- Mcgee, Frank

Best Quotes about Effort

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

Occam, William Of

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

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

Ruopp, Harold

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.

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Snider, Duke

11.

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

12.

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Bird, Larry

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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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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

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

25.

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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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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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.

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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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

34.

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

Danforth, William

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

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

Powell, Colin

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mckay, David O.