Motivational Quotes

Effort

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

- Jenner, Bruce

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Ball, Lucille

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

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

Danforth, William

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Snider, Duke

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

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine 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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Truman, Harry S

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

Buddha

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Payton, Walter

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bird, Larry

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

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

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

Powell, Colin

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.