Motivational Quotes

Effort

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.

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Snider, Duke

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

Danforth, William

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pope John I

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

Proverb

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

Patton, George S.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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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

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

25.

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

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

28.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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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 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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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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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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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 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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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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The one thing that matters is the effort.