Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Suzuki, Shunryu

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Payton, Walter

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

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pope John I

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

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

Ruopp, Harold

11.

There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Mcgee, Frank

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

Danforth, William

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

Palmer, Arnold

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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Occam, William Of

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

25.

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

26.

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

Garfield, James A.

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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

28.

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

29.

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

Patton, George S.

31.

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

Powell, Colin

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

Snider, Duke

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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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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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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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 one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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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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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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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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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