Quotes about effort

"What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly."

McLaughlin, Mignon on effort   

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

Occam, William Of on effort   

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

Palmer, Arnold on effort   

"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

Pascal, Blaise on effort
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"If a man has done his best, what else is there?"

Patton, George S. on effort
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"I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field."

Payton, Walter on effort   

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

Pope John I on effort   

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

Powell, Colin on effort
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"If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well."

Proverb on effort
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"One may go a long way after one is tired."

Proverb, French on effort   

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

Rockefeller, John D. on effort   

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

Rohn, Jim on effort
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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 on effort
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"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."

Roosevelt, Theodore on effort
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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 on effort
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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 on effort   

"The one thing that matters is the effort."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on effort
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"Nothing can come of nothing."

Shakespeare, William on effort
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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 on effort   

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Sills, Beverly on effort
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"Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging."

Snider, Duke on effort   

"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 on effort   

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

Suzuki, Shunryu on effort   

"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. on effort   

"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 on effort   

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

Truman, Harry S on effort   

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

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

Unknown, Source on effort
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"It's the last inch that counts."

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

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

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

Unknown, Source on effort
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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 on effort
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"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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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. on effort   

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

Ziglar, Zig on effort
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"It takes no extra effort for a good person to look all different and it takes all different efforts for others to look good. "

Anuj Somany on effort