Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

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

Garfield, James A.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Buddha

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

It's the last inch that counts.

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

Dresses, H. W.

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

Patton, George S.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Mckay, David O.

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Robert

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Occam, William Of

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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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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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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Snider, Duke

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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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.

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

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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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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