Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ball, Lucille

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

Proverb

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Dresses, H. W.

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Pope John I

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

Payton, Walter

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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Powell, Colin

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

Snider, Duke

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Danforth, William

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

Bird, Larry

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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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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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

40.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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