Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Payton, Walter

Best Quotes about Effort

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Palmer, Arnold

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Ball, Lucille

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

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

Truman, Harry S

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

Waitley, Denis

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

Garfield, James A.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Pope John I

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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 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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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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

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

Bird, Larry

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proverb

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

Occam, William Of

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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Mckay, David O.

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

41.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Browning, Robert

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Buddha