Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Pope John I

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dresses, H. W.

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

Occam, William Of

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Snider, Duke

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

Pope John I

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

Browning, Robert

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Bird, Larry

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Buddha

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y