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
• triumph

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
• triumph
• 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

• work
• effort

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

• work
• effort

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
• effort
• results

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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

• success
• effort

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