Effort Quotes - Page 3

• The one thing that matters is the effort.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Motivational, Best Effort

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• we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, Teaching, Keys

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  An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Happiness, Happy, Helping Others

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• To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

  John Fowles

  Despise

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Failure, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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  I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Arnold Palmer

  Sports, Perseverance, Determination

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• Full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Persistence, Victory

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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• When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Life, Giving, Flow

  "I am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.140, 1973.

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• I learned from a very young age that no one owes you anything and nobody's gonna give you a damn thing. But you can have anything you want, if you work hard enough for it.

  Branch Warren

  Motivational, Work, Bodybuilding

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• The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Success, Fitness

  "The Spirituality Of Running" by Jim Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2016.

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• Nothing can come of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (1917). “King Lear”, p.5, Library of Alexandria

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• Effort is between you and you.

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational Athlete, Wins And Losses, Inspiring Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2017

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• The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.

  Dalai Lama

  God, Peace, Responsibility

  The 14th Dalai Lama's Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1989.

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Best Effort, People, Mind

  "The Lady Who Does Her Own Work". The Atlantic Monthly, 1864.

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• Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

  George Santayana

  Inspirational, Goal, Forgotten

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, introduction (1905)

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Best Effort, Soul

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

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• The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

  John Ruskin

  Successful, Power, Best Effort

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• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sweet, Art, Writing

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage

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• The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

  Virginia Woolf

  Artist, Order, Mind

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  Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

  Erich Fromm

  Greed, Needs, Pits

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.121, Open Road Media

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  Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

  Aeschylus

  Happiness, Positivity, Choices

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Basketball, Art, Hurt

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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• A non-doer is very often a critic-that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It's easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Positive Thinking, Achievement

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com

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