Effort Quotes - Page 24

• Let us not try to be the best or worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.

  Marcus Garvey

  Trying, Being The Best, Worst

  Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, The Majority Press

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• No one person can take credit for the success of a motion picture. It's strictly a team effort. From the time the story is written to the time the final release print comes off the printer, hundreds of people are involved - each one doing a job - each job contributing to the final product.

  Walt Disney

  Jobs, Team, People

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• Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Stars, War, Rights

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• Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

  Gerald R. Ford

  Best Effort, Missing, Strive

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• Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.

  Baldassare Castiglione

  Grace, Obvious, Antithesis

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  Saint Basil

  Christian, Flesh, Causes

  Saint Basil (2010). “Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)”, p.331, CUA Press

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• It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Sex, Men, Thinking

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• At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fashion, Business, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Writing, Successful, Light

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• The effort to lift one's self into perfect enlightenment is a profound thing. It has nothing to do with individual will. It's a refraction of the cosmos. The cosmos delights in itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Perfect, Profound

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• With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Best Effort, Perfection

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• No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Choices, Attention

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• Seventy-five percent of our energy around the earth is being poured into war efforts. Are we servants of death and destruction? This 75 percent of energy could be poured into life, into the service of life-and there will be laughter, and there will be greater health, and there will be more wealth, more food. There will be no poverty. There is no need for poverty to exist at all.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Laughter, War

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• Tired of all her efforts at Tara, Scarlett wishes to escape too: "I do want to escape too! I'm so very tired of it all!. . . The South is dead, it's dead, the Yankees and the carpetbaggers have got it and there's nothing left for us."

  Vivien Leigh

  Tired, Yankees, Wish

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• Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves. So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our efforts, and that's why this is so important.

  William Cohen

  Real, Eugenics, Volcanoes

  William Cohen's remarks at the news briefing of U.S. Department of Defense, April 28, 1997.

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• Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.

  Thucydides

  Real, Thinking, Opportunity

  Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

  Morton Blackwell

  Achievement, Admirable, Valuable

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• You can always look back and see where you might have done something differently, changed this or that. If you can learn something, fine, but never second-guess yourself. It's wasted effort.... Does worrying about it, complaining about it, change it? Nope, it just wastes your time. And if you complain about it to other people, you're also wasting their time. Nothing is gained by wasting all of that time.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Worry, People

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• Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success.

  Jon Jones

  Motivational, Succeed

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• Salvation is not some felicitous state to which we can lift ourselves by our own bootstraps after the contemplation of sufficiently good examples. It is an utterly new creation into which we are brought by our death in Jesus' death and our resurrection in his. It comes not out of our own best efforts, however well-inspired or successfully pursued, but out of the shipwreck of all human efforts whatsoever.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Best Effort, Example

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.213, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You should not be hovering in the background, inflating the drama. Simply envelop him in love and affection and let him know that you will support his efforts, whatever they are.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Drama, Support

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• Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

  Jane Jacobs

  Women, Repetition, Ifs

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.129, Vintage

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• When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.

  Judith Martin

  Women, Rude, Please

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• Attitude determines effort.

  Anthony Pettis

  Attitude, Ufc, Mma

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