Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Garfield, James A.

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

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

Occam, William Of

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

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Janicki, H.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Waitley, Denis

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buddha

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Danforth, William

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

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

Proverb

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Guthrie, Janet

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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.

49.

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

Payton, Walter

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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