Motivational Quotes

Effort

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Occam, William Of

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

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

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

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

Payton, Walter

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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

12.

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

13.

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

Snider, Duke

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Patton, George S.

17.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

18.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

19.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Browning, Robert

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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.

25.

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

Bird, Larry

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

30.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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.

32.

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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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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buddha

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