Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

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

Dresses, H. W.

It's the last inch that counts.

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

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Browning, Robert

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bird, Larry

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Occam, William Of

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

Danforth, William

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

Proverb

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

Snider, Duke

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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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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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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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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