Motivational Quotes

Effort

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Browning, Robert

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Janicki, H.

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Powell, Colin

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

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

Pope John I

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

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

Snider, Duke

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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 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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Occam, William Of

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

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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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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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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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 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