Section e

Edwin H. Stuart: Effort Quotes
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Dale Carnegie: Effort Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

William James: Effort Quotes
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Jim Ryan: Effort Quotes
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Effort Quotes
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Jim Valvano: Effort Quotes
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

Paul Coffey: Effort Quotes
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work hard to get better.

John Wanamaker: Effort Quotes
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Aristotle: Effort Quotes
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

Daniel Webster: Energy Quote
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

Henri Frederic Amiel: Energy Quote
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

Samuel Johnson: Energy Quote
Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Les Brown: Energy Quote
Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Denis Waitley: Energy Quote
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Roberto Clemente: Energy Quote
If I would be happy, I would be a bad ballplayer. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.

Earvin Johnson: Energy Quote
If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them. Negative people can sap your energy so fast, and they can take your dreams from you, too.

Dr. Joyce Brothers: Energy Quote
If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life you should seriously consider.

Jerry Gillies: Energy Quote
It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.

Samuel Johnson: Excellence Quote
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Oliver Goldsmith: Excellence Quote
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Aristotle: Excellence Quote
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle: Excellence Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Bob Beamon: Excellence Quote
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Helen Keller: Excellence Quote
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

John W. Gardner: Excellence Quote
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Booker T. Washington: Excellence Quotes
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Thomas Edison: Excellence Quotes
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Lady Blessington: Excellence Quotes
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Unknown Author: Excellence Quotes
Good, better, best; never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.

Henry Ward Beecher: Excellence Quotes
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Michael J. Fox: Excellence Quotes
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Abraham Lincoln: Excellence Quotes
I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Henri Frederic Amiel: Excellence Quotes
It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Orison Swett Marden: Excellence Quotes
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Thomas Fuller: Quotes: Excuses
Bad excuses are worse than none.

Unknown Author: Quotes: Excuses
Don't make excuses, make good.

Publilius Syrus: Quotes: Excuses
Every vice has its excuse ready.

Benjamin Franklin: Quotes: Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Gabriel Meurier: Quotes: Excuses
He who excuses himself, accuses himself.

Henry Ward Beecher: Quotes: Excuses
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Yiddish Proverb: Quotes: Excuses
If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld: Quotes: Excuses
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

Napoleon Hill: Quotes: Excuses
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

Thomas Szasz: Quotes: Excuses
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

H. V. Adolt: Quotes: Excuses
We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses.

Abraham H. Maslow: Quotes: Excuses
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, and callings.

Rudyard Kipling: Quotes: Excuses
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.