Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Danforth, William

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Janicki, H.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

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

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

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

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

Proverb

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Occam, William Of

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

Garfield, James A.

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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 one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Pope John I

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Patton, George S.

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

Snider, Duke

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Einstein, Albert