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

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Bird, Larry

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

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

Ruopp, Harold

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Snider, Duke

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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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 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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Powell, Colin

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

Danforth, William

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

Payton, Walter

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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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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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De