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Quotes About Effort

The single greatest demotivator of a team is having members who are not carrying their load.
~ David Cottrell
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
~ Henry Reed
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
~ Naomi Campbell
Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.
~ Mother Teresa
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried.
~ Eunice Kennedy Shriver
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
~ Rachael Ray
Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.
~ Samuel Smiles
Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
~ Jacques Barzun
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.
~ Jacques Barzun
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
~ Siobhan Fahey
If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being can do and all that God expects you to do.
~ Jeffrey R. Holland
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
~ H. L. Mencken
It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.
~ Debra Messing
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.
~ John Mayer
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
My mother told me, 'Always do your best, ' and my dad says, 'It's important to be humble. That's the key. They're not there for you. You're there for them.'
~ Luke Benward
Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.
~ Johann von Goethe
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
~ John Wooden
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.
~ Joseph Pilates
When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.
~ Grantland Rice
It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.
~ Honore de Balzac
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
~ Ovid