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Quotes About Effort

All the Ping-Pong and pool tables, on-site chefs, Nerf hoops, and stereo systems cannot make up for the truth that some places work people like dogs.
~ Ken Wilber
Ask yourself every couple of minutes, 'Can I go harder? Can I do more?' You've got so much power. Show me.
~ Chalene Johnson
Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.
~ Joyce Meyer
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
~ C. S. Lewis
Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will.
~ J. G. Holland
When you step into that boat you have made a silent commitment to your team that you will do everything in your power to help them win.
~ Mary Whipple
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~ Robert South
The attitude of wanting to win-doing everything in your power except cheating to win.
~ Walt Frazier
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
~ Ovid
Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
Do what lieth in thy power, and God will assist in thy good will.
~ Thomas a Kempis
I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up.
~ Charles Barkley
We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.
~ Frank Chodorov
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
~ John Perry
In order to obtain and hold power a man must love it. Thus the effort to get it is not likely to be coupled with goodness, but with the opposite qualities of pride, craft and cruelty.
~ Leo Tolstoy
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
~ Lucretius
I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
~ Mark Cuban
In this world, who can do a thing, will not; And who would do it, cannot, I perceive: Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.
~ Robert Browning
Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
~ Sarah Knowles Bolton
Like our muscles, our thinking power grows when we struggle.
~ Debasish Mridha
Nothing happens easily in our lives. To get something, you have to attract it with the power of your love.
~ Debasish Mridha
Think on success, you will work for success, than you will get success
~ Aymen Tmar
There is no " i " in team. But there are two in motivation.
~ T. Jay Taylor