Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Danforth, William

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

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

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.

Dresses, H. W.

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

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

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

Garfield, James A.

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

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

Pope John I

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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

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

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

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

Bird, Larry

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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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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

Mckay, David O.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

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

Powell, Colin

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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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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Browning, Robert

33.

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

Proverb

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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It's the last inch that counts.

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Occam, William Of

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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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