Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

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

Janicki, H.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Patton, George S.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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 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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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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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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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Robert

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Powell, Colin

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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

Payton, Walter

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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