Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Occam, William Of

Best Quotes about Effort

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Browning, Robert

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

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.

Dresses, H. W.

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

Janicki, H.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Snider, Duke

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

Danforth, William

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Patton, George S.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Payton, Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Occam, William Of

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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 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.