Effort Quotes - Page 4

• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  James A. Baldwin

  Work, Men, Fire

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• I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Action

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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

  Arnold Palmer

  Inspirational, Sports, Hard Work

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
  People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
  Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Teamwork, Football, Commitment

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• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Life, Motivational, Travel

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “Neale Donald Walsh's Little Book of Life: A User's Manual”, p.95, Hampton Roads Publishing

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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.

  Bruce Jenner

  Inspirational, Strength, Motivational Sports

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• Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

  Og Mandino

  Energy, Tasks, Action

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• If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.

  John Spence

  Heart, Thinking, Space

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

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Money, Business

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Attitude

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Trying, Cuckoos

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

  Andre Gide

  Demand, Teach

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• Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

  Napoleon Hill

  Education, Struggle, Lessons

  Napoleon Hill (2009). “How To Sell Your Way Through Life”, p.151, John Wiley and Sons

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• If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

  Robert Brault

  Luck, Hustle, Levels

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• Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

  Shelby Steele

  Success, Struggle, Hard Work

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

  Georges Guynemer

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

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• What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Peace, War, Party

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2123, Delphi Classics

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• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Book, Writing

  Quoted in William Seward, Biographia (1799)

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• Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.

  Victor Cruz

  School, College, Climbing

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

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Leaving, Should, Bonfire

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

  Dan Millman

  Attitude, Warrior, Attachment

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.208, ReadHowYouWant.com

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