Effort Quotes - Page 19

• Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

  O. S. Hawkins

  Life, Kindness, Opportunity

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• When you are doing God's will everything seems to happen without much effort or many obstacles.

  Mary C. Neal

  God, Christian, Religious

  Mary C. Neal, M.D. (2012). “To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story”, p.12, WaterBrook

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• Training is doing your homework. It's not exciting. More often than not it's tedious. There is certainly no glory in it. But you stick with it, over time, and incrementally through no specific session, your body changes. Your mind becomes calloused to effort. You stop thinking of running as difficult or interesting or magical. It just becomes what you do. It becomes a habit.

  Jack Edmonds

  Running, Thinking, Interesting

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• If it turns out that physical death truly results in the absolute cessation of consciousness, then it would seem to me that in the grand truth of things, every human who has ever lived, who has not committed every minute of their lives toward an effort in finding a cure for mortality, has died as an utter and miserable failure.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Consciousness, Miserable

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• The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither in its interests nor within the scope of its resources. This whole tendency to see ourselves as the center of political enlightenment and as teachers to a great part of the rest of the world strikes me as unthought-through, vainglorious and undesirable.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Teacher, America

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• President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq . [...] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait .

  April Glaspie

  Country, War, Intelligent

  "Confrontation in the Gulf". Excerpts From Iraqi Document on Meeting With U.S. Envoy, www.nytimes.com. September 23, 1990.

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• War and, apparently, hurricanes are very good for the oil business. But I've got to believe at a certain point, as a nation, we're going to go in a different direction toward an increased sense of personal responsibility, a lowering of each individual's carbon footprint and a real collaborative effort to help sustain our planet.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Real, War, Believe

  "Movies: 'Syriana'". Online discuss, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods. Can we wonder, then, that nature's productions should be far 'truer' in character than man's productions; that they should be infinitely better adapted to the most complex conditions of life, and should plainly bear the stamp of far higher workmanship?

  Charles Darwin

  Character, Men, Wish

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The origin of species (low cost). Limited edition”, p.77, Charles Darwin

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• The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Technology, Men

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• If you are mindful in your work, if you put your best effort into it, then something comes back to you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Best Effort, Mindfulness

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• I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

  Federico Pena

  Technology, Challenges, Climate

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• No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Enlightenment, Lifetime

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• There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up.

  Jemaine Clement

  Bigs, Stage

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

  Judy Woodruff

  African American, American Voters, Increase

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• I'm very proud of the fact that Israel is the one country in a very broad radius that - in which Arabs have free and fair elections. That's sacrosanct. That will never change. I wasn't trying to suppress a vote. I was trying to get something to counter a foreign-funded effort to get votes that are intended to topple my party. And I was calling on our voters to come out.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Party, Israel

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.

  Yelawolf

  Dope, Together, Done

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• There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

  Seneca the Younger

  Care, Diligence, Accomplish

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• We strive to teach our children the importance of being caring and compassionate to others. This outpouring of emotion and effort by our children was so gratifying, and what they achieved absolutely exceeded our wildest expectations.

  Jeff B. Davis

  Children, Caring, Expectations

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• The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

  James Whistler

  Sweat, Masters, Brows

  James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Gains, Spirit

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1974). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, Vintage

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• I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Individuality, Violence

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• The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

  Francis of Assisi

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• All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Struggle, Life Is

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Sound, Enthusiasm, Easy

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