Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. Napoleon Hill

• determination
• effort

If a man does his best, what else is there? George Patton

• effort

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt

• courage
• competition
• effort

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. George Halas

• regret
• effort
• excellence

In every triumph there’s a lot of try. Frank Tyger

• effort
• achievement

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

• effort
• initiative

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. Gloria Pitzer

• effort
• work

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• work
• effort

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey

• effort
• responsibility
• excellence

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude. Pat Riley

• attitude
• effort

Every great human achievement is preceded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. Brian Tracy

• effort
• work

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. Sir Winston Churchill

• work
• persistence
• effort

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - when he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do. Harry Truman

• death
• legacy
• effort

As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work. Larry Winget

• work
• results
• effort

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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious. Vince Lombardi

• effort

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner. John Wooden

• sports
• effort

The score will take care of itself when you take care of the effort that precedes the score. John Wooden

• competition
• effort
• preparation

There's only one direction you can coast. Brian Tracy

• effort

If at first you succeed, try something harder. John Maxwell

• effort
• success

The fundamental principle of human action, the law that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion. Henry George

• desire
• work
• effort

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius. Elbert Hubbard

• genius
• effort
• mistakes

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• work
• imitation
• effort

What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about is what comes about! Larry Winget

• work
• effort
• initiative

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[G]reat players and great companies don't suddenly start hunching up, grimacing, and trying to "hit the ball harder" at a critical point. Rather, they're in a mode, a zone in which they're performing and depending on their "game," which they've mastered over many months and years of intelligently directed hard work. There's only so much thinking you can isolate and focus on during that kind of extreme competitive pressure. It has to be tactical more than a conscious effort to really "try harder." You just want to function very well, up to your potential, effortlessly—do what you already know how to do at the level of excellence you've acquired—whether in making a presentation or coaching a game or anything else. Bill Walsh

• effort
• performance
• calm

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"[E]xtra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead. Bill Walsh

• leadership
• effort
• rest

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By instinct we—leaders—want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge. Bill Walsh

• effort
• rest

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Our capacity to try, try, try is inextricably linked with our ability and tolerance to fail, fail, fail. Ryan Holiday

• effort
• failure