Effort Quotes - Page 8

• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Excellence, Tasks, Way

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

  William James

  Best Effort, Forget, Effort And Hard Work

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

  William Osler

  Perseverance, Struggle, Trying

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.4, ACP Press

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• Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Special, Conversation

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Success, Dance, Life And Love

  Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47

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• A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Perfection, Moments, Fight Club Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.33, Random House

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• We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Praise

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.48, BookBaby

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• Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Training, Achieve

  Epictetus (1967). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  Kamisese Mara

  Fun, Hard Work, Parenting

  Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.

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• Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

  Anais Nin

  "A Woman's Journal : A Blank Book with Quotes by Women" by Running Press Staff, (p. 1932), 2002.

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• We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

  Frank Howard Clark

  Funny, Retirement, Stars

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• Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, People

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

  Robert Browning

  Best Effort, Haunting, Curse

  Robert Browning (1989). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book”

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• The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

  Laozi

  Work, Taoism, Sage

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

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• Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

  Aga Khan III

  Inspirational, Encouraging, God

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

  Emma Goldman

  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Sports, Hurt

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• I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.

  Ingemar Stenmark

  Sports, Work, Luck

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• Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Land, Water

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.177, Best Books on

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• I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

  Jack Kingston

  Real, Issues, Wish

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews" with Campbell Brown, www.nbcnews.com. July 18, 2005.

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• It will take a massive effort to move society from corporate domination, in which industry's rights to pollute and damage health and the environment supersede the public's right to live, work, and play in safety. This is a political fight. The science is already there, showing that people's health is at risk. To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

  Lois Gibbs

  Children, Work, Moving

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• Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

  Robert Breault

  Pride, Sweat, Prejudice

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• Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

  Willa Cather

  Struggle, Interesting, Pleasure

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