Motivational Quotes

Effort

Easy DOESN'T do it.

- Bernstein, Al

Best Quotes about Effort

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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.

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

Janicki, H.

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

Occam, William Of

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

Buddha

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

Danforth, William

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

10.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

11.

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

Bird, Larry

12.

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

Dresses, H. W.

14.

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

15.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

Snider, Duke

18.

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

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Kennedy, John F.

23.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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

27.

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

28.

It's the last inch that counts.

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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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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

32.

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

33.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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.

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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

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.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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