Quote: The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: If a man has done his best, what else is there? Author: George S. Patton 1885-1945, American Army General during World War II
Quote: I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. Author: Walter Payton American Football Player
Quote: If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder. Author: Pope John I Italian Pope
Quote: The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. Author: Colin Powell 1937-, American Army General
Quote: If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. Author: Proverb
Quote: One may go a long way after one is tired. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. Author: John D. Rockefeller 1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon
Quote: For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. Author: Eleanor Roosevelt 1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian
Quote: Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. Author: Theodore Roosevelt 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA
Quote: Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. Author: Harold Ruopp
Quote: The one thing that matters is the effort. Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery 1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer
Quote: Nothing can come of nothing. Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: ''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. Author: Barbara Sher American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was''
Quote: You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Author: Beverly Sills American Opera Singer
Quote: Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Author: Duke Snider
Quote: 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. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner
Quote: When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. Author: Shunryu Suzuki Japanese Zen Master
Quote: 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. Author: Robert A. Taft 1889-1953, American Politician
Quote: 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. Author: Ada Teixeira
Quote: champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters! Author: Judi Adler
Quote: 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. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Author: Lucille Ball 1911-1989, American Actress, Producer
Quote: 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. Author: Jesse Barfield American Baseball Player
Quote: It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. Author: Arnold Bennett 1867-1931, British Novelist
Quote: Easy DOESN'T do it. Author: Al Bernstein
Quote: 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. Author: Yogi Berra 1925-, American Baseball Player
Quote: 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] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. Author: Larry Bird 1956-, American Basketball Player, Coach
Quote: Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: There's no taking trout with dry breeches. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best. Author: William Danforth American Entrepreneur, Author
Quote: Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. Author: H. W. Dresses
Quote: Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. Author: Alexandre Dumas 1802-1870, French Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: 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. Author: Barbara Ehrenreich 1941-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: Much effort, much prosperity. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: 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. Author: John Fischer
Quote: Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. Author: James A. Garfield 1831-1881, Twentieth President of the USA
Quote: Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. Author: Jose Ortega Y Gasset 1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher
Quote: Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. Author: Janet Guthrie American Race Car Driver
Quote: If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Author: Georges Guynemer
Quote: Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. Author: P. D. James 1920-, British Mystery Writer
Quote: 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. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. Author: H. Janicki
Quote: 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. Author: Bruce Jenner 1949-, American Olympian, Actor, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Sports Commentator
Quote: Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. Author: Bruce Jenner 1949-, American Olympian, Actor, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Sports Commentator
Quote: What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Author: Helen Keller 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
Quote: Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. Author: John F. Kennedy 1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA
Quote: 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. Author: D. H. Lawrence 1885-1930, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Max Lerner 1902-, American Author, Columnist
Quote: 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. Author: Gotthold Lessing 1729-1781, German Dramatist, Critic
Quote: 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. Author: Charles Mackay 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer
Quote: 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. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright
Quote: Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. Author: Frank Mcgee
Quote: Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. Author: David O. Mckay
Quote: What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. Author: Mignon Mclaughlin 1915?-, American Author, Editor
Quote: It is vain to do with more what can be done with less. Author: William Of Occam
Quote: Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do. Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA
Quote: About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want ! Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It's the last inch that counts. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: 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. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: 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. Author: A.L. Williams American Football Coach, Businessman, Author, Speaker
Quote: If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull. Author: Zig Ziglar American Sales Trainer, Author, Motivational Speaker