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• I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Games, Umpires

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• Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

  Richard G. Scott

  Heroic, Enjoy, Preserves

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• The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

  David McCullough

  Preparation, Hours, Scales

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough Great Moments in History E-book Box Set: 1776, The Johnstown Flood, Path Between the Seas, The Great Bridge, The Course of Human Events”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

  Dan Millman

  Feet, Water, Desire

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.127, New World Library

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• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

  Dan Millman

  Goal, Focus, Simplicity

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• The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

  Barbara Boxer

  People, Citizens, Poverty

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

  Sidney Lanier

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Struggle, Moral Growth, Morality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Beauty, Art, Flower

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Work, Life Is Short, Long Ago

  "A Writer's Notebook (1941)". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1946.

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

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, World, Earth

  "The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters". Book by E. E. Brown, 1881.

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• Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Motivational, Determination, Persistence

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• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

  George Herbert

  Inspiration, Greatness, Cynical

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.317

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• In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Work, Learning

  "Va-Va-Voodoo! : Find Love, Make Love & Keep Love". Book by Kathleen Charlotte, Ross Heaven (p. 33), 2007.

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• If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

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• There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wisdom, Courage, Fall

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• Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

  Roger McDonald

  Inspirational, People, Reason Why

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• Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

  Jack Canfield

  Uplifting, Dream, Believe

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Jul 22, 2014

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• Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  Booker T. Washington (2012). “Up from Slavery”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• Genuine effort is success.

  Vernon Howard

  Genuine

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• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  William James

  Mean, Thinking, Metaphysics

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.6.

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• Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Mind, Tone, Body

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• Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

  Sophia Loren

  Believe, Thinking, Discipline

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Colin Powell

  Success, Military, Winning

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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