Best Effort Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Winning, Giving, Superstar

  John Wooden, Jay Carty (2010). “Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success (Large Print 16pt)”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hero, Epic, Climbing

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• Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

  Brandon Sanderson

  People, Use, Might

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• It's phenomenal the kind of support Donald Trump has, despite the best efforts to suppress it, and those efforts are being made, I think it's profound, the number of people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Kings, Volcanoes

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.65, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Real, Play, Competition

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• Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

  Julian Simon

  Our World, Heaven, Humanity

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• The Good Lord in his infinite wisdom, did not create us all equal when it comes to size, strength, appearance, or various aptitudes. But success is not being better than someone else, success is the peace of mind that is a direct result of self-satisfacti on in knowing that you gave your best effort to become the best of which you are capable.

  John Wooden

  Self, Knowing, Mind

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• When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

  Suzanne Massie

  People, Frustrated, Problem

  Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

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• Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

  John Wooden

  Strive, Accomplish, Capable

  John Wooden, Steve Jamison (2009). “Coach Wooden's Leadership Game Plan for Success: 12 Lessons for Extraordinary Performance and Personal Excellence”, p.8, McGraw Hill Professional

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• My best efforts were some modern things that looked like very lousy Matisses. Thank God I had the sense to realize they were lousy, and leave Paris.

  Norman Rockwell

  Humor, Artist, Paris

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• There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Diversity, Three, Use

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

  Tony Dungy

  Differences, People, Giving

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• I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams — give it all up to God and say, “Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest.

  Jeremy Lin

  Dream, Play, Giving

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• I feel that everyone is good. In this way I give every game my best effort. The moment that you let up is the time that you can be hit by the sucker punch.

  Walter Browne

  Success, Games, Giving

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• If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Done, World

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• You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Ambition, Winning

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• Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Lying, Order, Energy

  The New York Times, January 1, 1978.

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• When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Independent Women, Miracle

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• If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing poorly first.

  Joel Salatin

  Jobs, Firsts, Spanish Proverb

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  People, Mind, Doe

  "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work". The Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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• If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

  Seth Godin

  Worth Waiting For, Chinese Proverb, Wells

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• The one thing that matters is the effort.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Motivational, Labor Day

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• If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

  Margaret Mahy

  Jobs, Work, Spanish Proverb

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• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Life Is Short, Long Ago

  "A Writer's Notebook (1941)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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