Quotes about effort

"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 on effort   

"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 on effort   

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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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 on effort   

"It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top."

Bennett, Arnold on effort
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"Easy DOESN'T do it."

Bernstein, Al on effort   

"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 on effort   

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

Bird, Larry on effort   

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

Browning, Robert on effort   

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

Buddha on effort
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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."

Cervantes, Miguel De on effort   

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

Danforth, William on 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. on effort
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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 on effort   

"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 on effort   

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

Einstein, Albert on effort
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"Much effort, much prosperity."

Euripides on 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 on effort   

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

Garfield, James A. on effort   

"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on effort   

"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 on effort   

"If one has not given everything, one has given nothing."

Guynemer, Georges on effort   

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

Hill, Napoleon on effort
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"God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest."

James, P. D. on effort
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead."

James, William on effort
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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. on effort   

"Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day."

Jenner, Bruce on effort
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"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 on effort   

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

Johnson, Samuel on effort
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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 on effort
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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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. on effort
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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. on effort   

"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 on effort   

"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 on effort   

"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 on effort   

"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 on effort   

"Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself."

Mcgee, Frank on effort   

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

Mckay, David O. on effort