Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Effort

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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.

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

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

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

Danforth, William

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

Occam, William Of

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ball, Lucille

10.

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

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Pope John I

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Snider, Duke

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Browning, Robert

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Powell, Colin

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

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

Payton, Walter

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

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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Buddha

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

Proverb

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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It's the last inch that counts.