Work Effort Quotes - Page 2

• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strength, Success, Yoga

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

  Shelby Steele

  Success, Struggle, Hard Work

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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  Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Basketball, Art, Hurt

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  No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perseverance, Effort, Succeed

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.217, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Freedom, Mean, Past

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• We work to become, not to acquire.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Life, Success, Work

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• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Our Love, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Time, Business, Work

  The Note Book (1927)

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• Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Gambling, Luck

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.282, Library of America

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• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Work, Artist, Men

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• Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.

  Earl Nightingale

  Funny, Work, Humor

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• The greatness of work is inside man.

  Pope John Paul II

  Greatness, Men, Inside Man

  Pope John Paul II, Jerzy Peterkiewicz (1982). “Collected poems”, Random House Inc

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