Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Einstein, Albert

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Buddha

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

Occam, William Of

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Patton, George S.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Proverb

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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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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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Pope John I

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Snider, Duke

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

Lessing, Gotthold

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Bird, Larry

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

Powell, Colin

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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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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