Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Occam, William Of

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Pope John I

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mckay, David O.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Powell, Colin

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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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 one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Bird, Larry

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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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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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

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

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb

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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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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides