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Effort Quotes by John Wooden
- Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only…
- I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort.
- Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.
- 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,…
- I believe it’s impossible to claim you have taught, when there are students who have not learned. With that commitment, from my first year as…
- Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure…
- The goal in life is the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing--in marriage, at your…
- Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all…
- You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can…
- Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.
- Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.
- 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…
- Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect…
- You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but…
- Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.
- Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you…
More Effort Quotes
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- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister