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Quotes About Effort

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.
~ Charles Stewart Parnell
There are complete men and incomplete men. If you would be a complete man, put all of your soul's strength into all of your life's actions.
~ Eugenio Maria de Hostos
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
~ George Sand
You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.
~ Nastia Liukin
Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.
~ Ovid
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
~ Dolores LaChapelle
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings
~ Rumi
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?
~ Henri Desgrange
If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come.
~ Lawrence Welk
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.
~ Samuel Johnson
Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.
~ Joe Hyams
Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient.
~ Confucius
For the weakest has but to try his strength to find it, and then he shall be strong.
~ Robin Hobb, Ship of Magic
Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.
~ Simonides of Ceos
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
~ Robert Herrick
There is no greater glory that can befall a man that what he achieves with the speed of his feet or the strength of his hands.
~ Homer
Today's effort is the strength for tomorrow
~ Muhammad Saad Mansoor
When the week begins, try your best to let your best overcome your worst and that is the best. Do your best to have a good week and never be weak in the week.
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; working hard for somthing we love is called passion.
~ Simon Sinek
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
~ John Wooden
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
~ Carlos Castaneda
Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.
~ Paul Gauguin