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

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.

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

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

Buddha

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Dresses, H. W.

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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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 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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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Occam, William Of

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

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

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

Mckay, David O.

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

Truman, Harry S

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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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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 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

33.

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

Danforth, William

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

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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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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Proverb

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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