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  Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational Life, World, Matter

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• The reward of eternal life requires effort.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Rewards, Eternal Life, Eternal

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• If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Journey, Practice, Profound

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings”, p.298, Shambhala Publications

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• The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Hands, Walking Sticks, Purpose

  Thorstein Veblen (2011). “Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.184, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

  Bill Toomey

  Bottom

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• To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

  Robert Genn

  Clouds, Becoming One, Trouble

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• It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.

  Walter Cronkite

  Military, Lying, Safety

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• It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.

  Billy Cannon

  Artistic, Lifetime, Being An Artist

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• Well, this week's peeve might be... when art writers talk about an artist's 'efforts,' meaning their work. It always sounds patronizing to me, like 'I'll give you an E for effort.' How about the artist's 'effortlessnesses' instead? It's certainly something, or at least the appearance of something, that I aspire to myself.

  James Nares

  Art, Giving, Sound

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• The act of trying keeps me excited, looking, asking questions and learning.

  Doug Dawson

  Asking Questions, Trying, Excited

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• Talent counts for much, but effort counts for more.

  Carter Ratcliff

  Talent

  Carter Ratcliff (1982). “John Singer Sargent”, Abbeville Pr

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Teamwork, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.217, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Motivational, Courage, Strong

  Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Looking Forward".

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• When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Inspirational, Courage, Perseverance

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• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Freedom, Mean, Past

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• Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

  Max Lerner

  Congratulations, Men, Best Effort

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Foundation, Essentials

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• What is needed now are increased efforts to promote youth participation and commitment; more services aimed at youth; more parental involvement; more education and information, using schools and other sites; more protection for girls, orphaned children and young women;and more partnerships with people with HIV and AIDS.

  Carol Bellamy

  Girl, Children, School

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• If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being

  Joanna Macy

  Love, Web Of Life, People

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• I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work

  Dalai Lama

  God, Organization, People

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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

  James M. Cain

  Tough, Conscious, Grim

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• It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

  Matt Drudge

  Way, Losing, Rating

  "Matt Drudge on Chris Rock's Oscar Controversy". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2005.

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