Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

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

Bird, Larry

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

Ziglar, Zig

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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.

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

Dumas, Alexandre

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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

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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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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Proverb

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Patton, George 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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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 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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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Browning, Robert

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

Snider, Duke

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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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