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Inspirational Quotations to Advance Career/Occupational Wellness

Champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!  

- Judi Adler  

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.  

- Lucille Ball  

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.  

- Jesse Barfield  

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.  

- Arnold Bennett  

Easy DOESN'T do it.  

- Al Bernstein  

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left.  

- Yogi Berra  

Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.  

- Larry Bird  

I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.  

- William Danforth  

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.  

- H W Dresses  

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.  

- Alexandre Dumas  

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.  

- Albert Einstein  

Much effort, much prosperity.  

- Euripides  

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.  

- James A Garfield  

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.  

- Janet Guthrie  

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.  

- Georges Guynemer  

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

- Napoleon Hill  

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.  

- P D James  

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.  

- William James  

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t.  

- Bruce Jenner  

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.  

- Bruce Jenner  

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.  

- Samuel Johnson  

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.  

- Helen Keller  

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.  

- John F Kennedy  

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  

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.  

- Gotthold Lessing  

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.  

- Charles Mackay  

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.  

- Frank Mcgee  

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.  

- David O Mckay  

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.  

- Mignon Mclaughlin  

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.  

- Arnold Palmer  

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.  

- Blaise Pascal  

If a man has done his best, what else is there?  

- George S Patton  

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.  

- Walter Payton  

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.  

- Colin Powell  

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.  

- Proverb  

One may go a long way after one is tired.  

- French Proverb  

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.  

- Jim Rohn  

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.  

- Eleanor Roosevelt  

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

- Theodore Roosevelt  

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.  

- Theodore Roosevelt  

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.  

- Harold Ruopp  

The one thing that matters is the effort.  

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery  

Nothing can come of nothing.  

- William Shakespeare  

''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.  

- Barbara Sher  

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.  

- Beverly Sills  

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.  

- Duke Snider  

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.  

- Ada Teixeira  

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.  

- Harry S Truman  

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..  

- Source Unknown  

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.  

- Source Unknown  

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.  

- Source Unknown  

It's the last inch that counts.  

- Source Unknown  

Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well.  

- Source Unknown  

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.  

- Denis Waitley  

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.  

- Denis Waitley  

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.  

- A L Williams  

If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.  

- Zig Ziglar  

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