Motivational Quotes

Effort

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Effort

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

Dresses, H. W.

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.

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

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

Ruopp, Harold

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

Powell, Colin

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

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

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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

Occam, William Of

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One may go a long way after one is tired.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Snider, Duke

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mckay, David O.

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

Payton, Walter

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

Janicki, H.

25.

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

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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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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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Easy DOESN'T do it.

Bernstein, Al

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

Suzuki, Shunryu

31.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Danforth, William

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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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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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Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Rohn, Jim

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

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The one thing that matters is the effort.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Garfield, James A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.