Motivational Quotes

Effort

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

- Suzuki, Shunryu

Best Quotes about Effort

1.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

2.

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

3.

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

Waitley, Denis

4.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Suzuki, Shunryu

5.

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

6.

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Bird, Larry

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Janicki, H.

16.

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

Pope John I

17.

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.

18.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

20.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

21.

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

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Garfield, James A.

23.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

27.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

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

Snider, Duke

29.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

It's the last inch that counts.

31.

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

Palmer, Arnold

32.

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

Occam, William Of

33.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

34.

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

35.

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

Browning, Robert

36.

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

Ball, Lucille

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Kennedy, John F.

46.

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