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.

It's the last inch that counts.

2.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

3.

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

4.

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

Buddha

5.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

6.

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

Garfield, James A.

7.

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

Hill, Napoleon

8.

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

Snider, Duke

9.

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

10.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

11.

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

12.

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

Bennett, Arnold

13.

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

Palmer, Arnold

14.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

15.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

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

Janicki, H.

17.

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

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

19.

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

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

22.

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

Bird, Larry

23.

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

Patton, George S.

24.

Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

25.

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

Payton, Walter

26.

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.

27.

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

Powell, Colin

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

31.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

32.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

33.

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

Ruopp, Harold

34.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Dumas, Alexandre

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Truman, Harry S

38.

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

Kennedy, John F.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

42.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

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

Ziglar, Zig

45.

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

46.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

47.

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.

48.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

49.

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

50.

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