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Quotes About Effort

People shouldn't dwell on the past. It's enough to try your best in all that you're doing now.
~ Aya Kito
You can have the best intentions in the world but if you do nothing, you are nothing.
~ Corey Taylor
Everybody has to look at his or her own footprint and do the best they can. It's not about being perfect, it's about doing something. If we're looking for perfection, we'll never, ever get there.
~ Laurie David
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
~ Thomas More
We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?
~ Bud Wilkinson
We don't have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.
~ John Wooden
You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.
~ Jim Leyland
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
~ Clint Eastwood
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
~ Sally Field
Often the best way to relax is just to go back to work.
~ Steve McQueen
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
~ Sam Ewing
Honestly, I'm just trying to do the best I can with every opportunity I'm given, and when I'm given the opportunities make the most of them.
~ Tim Tebow
Football isn't necessarily won by the best players. It's won by the team with the best attitude.
~ George Allen
I know I want to always do the best I can.
~ Adam Sandler
Never set out to be the best. It's too low a standard. Set out to be good. Do Your best.
~ Henry Mintzberg
Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.
~ Jim Henson
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
~ Dolly Parton
The best way to get something good out of what you're doing is to put something good into it.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.
~ Christopher McDougall
If you do the best you can, you will find, nine times out of ten, that you have done as well as or better than anyone else.
~ William Feather
Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.
~ Arthur Leonard Schawlow
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
We're neither pure, nor wise, nor good; we do the best we know.
~ Voltaire
I try to be the best I can be at what I can do, and that's playing hard & rebounding.
~ Tristan Thompson