Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Danforth, William

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

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Patton, George S.

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

Snider, Duke

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

Pope John I

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Palmer, 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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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 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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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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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.

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

29.

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

Bird, Larry

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

Proverb

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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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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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

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

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

Powell, Colin

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Occam, William Of

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

Browning, Robert