Motivational Quotes

Effort

The one thing that matters is the effort.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Truman, Harry S

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

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

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

10.

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

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

14.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Ball, Lucille

15.

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

Dresses, H. W.

16.

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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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

18.

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

Bird, Larry

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

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

Janicki, H.

22.

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

23.

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

Patton, George S.

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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.

25.

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

30.

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

31.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

32.

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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's the last inch that counts.

37.

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

Buddha

39.

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

Pope John I

40.

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

Payton, Walter

41.

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

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

43.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Mckay, David O.

45.

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

Garfield, James A.

46.

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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

49.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

50.

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

Dumas, Alexandre