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 - [Effort]

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
~ Hannah Arendt - [Effort]

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
~ Lucille Ball - [Effort]

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 - [Effort]

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
~ Arnold Bennett - [Effort]

Easy DOESN'T do it.
~ Al Bernstein - [Effort]

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 - [Effort]

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. [Ecclesiastes 9:11]
~ Bible - [Effort]

Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.
~ Peter F. Drucker - [Efficiency]

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
~ David Dunham - [Efficiency]