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Effort

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

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Best Quotes about Effort

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

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

Janicki, H.

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

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Jenner, Bruce

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Palmer, Arnold

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

Snider, Duke

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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It's the last inch that counts.

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

Proverb

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

Browning, Robert

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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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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Occam, William Of

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

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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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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.

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Bird, Larry

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

Powell, Colin

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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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