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Quotes About Effort

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
It's not who's put up the fastest time in the world that year, or who's put up the fastest time in the previous four years, but who can get their hand on the wall first today.
~ Nathan Adrian
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
~ Carl Hubbell
Failure is often the line of least persistence.
~ Zig Ziglar
Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
~ Dale Carnegie
Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ideas without action are worthless.
~ Harvey Mackay
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Someone with less passion and talent and poorer content can totally beat you if they're willing to work longer and harder than you are. Hustle is it.
~ Gary Vaynerchuk
Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!
~ Joyce Meyer
It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
~ Claude M. Bristol
When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
~ William James
Success is dependent on the glands - the sweat glands.
~ Zig Ziglar
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
~ Helen Keller
You need one hundred percent commitment; you have to be willing to wake up every morning knowing you're going to [practice] eight hours straight.
~ Zoe Saldana
The individual who is mistake-free is also probably sitting around doing nothing. And that is a very big mistake.
~ John Wooden
You really can give a 110% effort towards something that you are truly passionate about.
~ Robert Cheeke
Success will not happen through (os.mo.sis), osmosis.
~ Jon Jones
Activity is not output.
~ Andy Grove
Luck has nothing to do with it.
~ Serena Williams
Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.
~ Dan Harris