Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

Garfield, James A.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Palmer, Arnold

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Snider, Duke

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

Occam, William Of

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

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

16.

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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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

18.

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

Ball, Lucille

19.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

25.

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

Powell, Colin

26.

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

Kennedy, John F.

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

29.

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

30.

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

Janicki, H.

31.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

32.

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

Mckay, David O.

33.

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Ruopp, Harold

34.

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.

35.

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

36.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

37.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

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

Bennett, Arnold

39.

It's the last inch that counts.

40.

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

Buddha

41.

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

42.

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

Danforth, William

43.

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

Bird, Larry

44.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

45.

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

46.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

48.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

50.

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

Proverb