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  • Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

    Love   Mean   Best Effort  
    Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.98, Dell
  • Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

    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
  • When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

    Men   Agency   Years  
    Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.
  • If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

    Jobs   Work   Best Effort  
  • Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.

    Eye   Best Effort   Grace  
  • Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

    Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”
  • 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.

  • What I like about cooking is that, so long as you follow the recipe exactly, everything always turns out perfect. It’s too bad there’s no recipe for happiness. Happiness is more like pastry—which is to say that you can take pains to keep cool and not overwork the dough, but if you don’t have that certain light touch, your best efforts still fall flat. The work-around is to buy what you need. I’m talking about pastry, not happiness, although money does make things easier all around.

    Pain   Fall   Light  
  • Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

  • I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'

  • We want best efforts guided by theory.

  • 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.

    The New York Times, January 1, 1978.
  • People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  • But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

    Men   Best Effort   Soul  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics
  • Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

    Basketball   Art   Hurt  
  • I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

  • There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  • The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  • Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

    John F. Kennedy's Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, North Carolina, September 17, 1960.
  • I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

  • Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

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

  • Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

  • If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  • If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something.

    "Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton".
  • Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort.

  • In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

    Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com
  • The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

    Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.38, Courier Corporation
  • A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

    Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.
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