Motivational Quotes

Effort

One may go a long way after one is tired.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

Dumas, Alexandre

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

Buddha

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

10.

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

Bird, Larry

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

Snider, Duke

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

Patton, George S.

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Occam, William Of

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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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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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

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

Browning, Robert

33.

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

Danforth, William

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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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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Garfield, James A.

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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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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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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 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

48.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French