Best Effort Quotes - Page 2

• Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

  Barbara Sher

  Love, Mean, Doing Your Own Thing

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.98, Dell

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• The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Achievement

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• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Zero, Knowledge, Fire

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• Give him a crowd, a gallery worthy of his best effort, and the old warrior will put on his show... He isn't what he use to be. But pack the stands, turn up the lights, and who is it brings down the house with his act? The Babe!

  John J. Kiernan

  Baseball, Warrior, Light

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• You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.

  George Foreman

  Helping Others, Giving, Getaways

  George Foreman (2010). “Knockout Entrepreneur: My Ten-Count Strategy for Winning at Business”, p.41, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

  Hillary Clinton

  Struggle, Race, America

  "EXCLUSIVE: Hillary arrives by private jet for Ferguson-area speech on race relations and Charleston 'terrorism' - but friend of Michael Brown hammers her: 'Where you been? It's been ten months, girl!'" by David Martosko, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 23, 2015.

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• Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

  Nido R Qubein

  Strong, Commitment, Focus

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• No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Important, Should, Please

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• Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Hurt, Loss

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• Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

  Peter Straub

  Best Buddies, Despite, Contrary

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

  William Westmoreland

  Regret, Apology, Spats

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• An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Journey, Obstacles, Blame

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

  Walter Payton

  Running, Mean, Energy

  "Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton".

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• I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

  Anton Chekhov

  Police, Criticism, Literature

  "Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends: With Biographical Sketch". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1920.

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• Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Hard Work, Pits, Effort

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• Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge which offers a strong motivation for innovative work, which fires the imagination and spurs men to expend their best efforts, and which acts as a catalyst by including chains of other reactions.

  Ernst Stuhlinger

  Strong, Motivation, Men

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• In our past lies our future. By our own hands and decisions we will be damned and we will be saved. Whatever you do, put forth your best effort even if all you're doing is chasing a never ending rainbow. You might never reach the end of it, but along the way you'll meet people who will mean the world to you and make me...mories that will keep you warm on even the coldest nights

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Mean, Past

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• You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Action, Can Do, Universe

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• To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

  Gene Kranz

  Attitude, Errors, Giving

  Gene Kranz (2009). “Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond”, p.393, Simon and Schuster

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• When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

  Clarence Darrow

  Pain, Journey, Men

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

  Deborah Harkness

  Blood, Vision, Vampire

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.240, Penguin

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• Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Bragging, Praise

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• I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

  Jesse Barfield

  Success, Sports, Team

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Soul, Savages

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

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• A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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