Motivational Quotes

Effort

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

- Ruopp, Harold

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

Janicki, H.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Mckay, David O.

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Danforth, William

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

Snider, Duke

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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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 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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

33.

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

34.

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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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

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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 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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Pope John I

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

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

Bird, Larry

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Patton, George S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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