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(607 votes) One may go a long way after one is tired.

French Proverb
Sayings of French Origin

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(957 votes) Nothing can come of nothing.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(908 votes) The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(657 votes) The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(635 votes) champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!

Judi Adler

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

Walter Payton
American Football Player

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(618 votes) If a man has done his best, what else is there?

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(617 votes) The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Colin Powell
1937-, American Army General

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(585 votes) What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(583 votes) You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962, American First Lady, Columnist, Lecturer, Humanitarian

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(583 votes) There's no taking trout with dry breeches.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(581 votes) The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

Buddha
568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism

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(578 votes) There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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

Shunryu Suzuki
Japanese Zen Master

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(548 votes) If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Proverb

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(542 votes) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills
American Opera Singer

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(538 votes) 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
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(538 votes) Much effort, much prosperity.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(538 votes) If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

Georges Guynemer

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

Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA

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(528 votes) Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(525 votes) 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.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(522 votes) 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.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(521 votes) Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(515 votes) The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

Blaise Pascal
1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher

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(514 votes) It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist

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(513 votes) 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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(507 votes) God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

P. D. James
1920-, British Mystery Writer

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(499 votes) Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

Duke Snider

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(499 votes) 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.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(485 votes) Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

Larry Bird
1956-, American Basketball Player, Coach

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(483 votes) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(483 votes) 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.

Max Lerner
1902-, American Author, Columnist

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(476 votes) Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

Janet Guthrie
American Race Car Driver

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(475 votes) I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.

William Danforth
American Entrepreneur, Author

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(472 votes) 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
1949-, American Olympian, Actor, Speaker, Entrepreneur, Sports Commentator

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(468 votes) 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.

Yogi Berra
1925-, American Baseball Player

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(468 votes) Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(465 votes) For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Jim Rohn
American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher

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(458 votes) If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball
1911-1989, American Actress, Producer

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(456 votes) Easy DOESN'T do it.

Al Bernstein

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(454 votes) If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Pope John I
Italian Pope

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(453 votes) 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.

Robert A. Taft
1889-1953, American Politician

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

Harold Ruopp

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

H. Janicki

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(448 votes) 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.

John Fischer

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(442 votes) Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Arnold Palmer
1929-, American Golfer

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(437 votes) 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.

Jesse Barfield
American Baseball Player

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(436 votes) ''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.

Barbara Sher
American Author of ''I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was''

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