Motivational Quotes

Effort

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

- Mcgee, Frank

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Danforth, William

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

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Buddha

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Powell, Colin

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

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Garfield, James A.

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