Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Mckay, David O.

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Snider, Duke

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

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Truman, Harry S

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.

10.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

11.

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

Danforth, William

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

Mckay, David O.

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

Proverb

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

Occam, William Of

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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 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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

27.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

41.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Powell, Colin

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

Patton, George S.

46.

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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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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It's the last inch that counts.