Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Palmer, Arnold

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Buddha

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pope John I

14.

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

15.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Truman, Harry S

18.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

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

Occam, William Of

20.

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

Snider, Duke

21.

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

Patton, George S.

23.

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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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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It's the last inch that counts.

27.

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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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.

30.

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

31.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

33.

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

Powell, Colin

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

36.

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

Dresses, H. W.

37.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Browning, Robert

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

Bird, Larry

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

Mckay, David O.

49.

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

Proverb

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