Effort Quotes - Page 9

• In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Fear, War, Fire

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958”, p.607, Best Books on

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• Effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. So that team that thinks it's ready to see you, they think what they've seen on film, they ain't saw what film shows, because every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. So now you've got to go out and show them that I'm a different creature now, than I was five minutes ago, cause I'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.

  Ray Lewis

  Determination, Team, Mean

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• Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

  Harry S. Truman

  Men, Doe, Can Do

  Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2003). “Miracle of Forty-eight”, p.42, SIU Press

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• Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love You, Healthy, Growing

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• So, to praise others for their virtues - Can but encourage one's own efforts

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

  Encouragement, Helping Others, Praise

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• The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Tasks, Way

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• Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

  Barbara Sher

  Love, Mean, Best Effort

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.98, Dell

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• My experience as a school nurse taught me that we need to make a concerted effort, all of us, to increase physical fitness activity among our children and to encourage all Americans to adopt a healthier diet that includes fruits and vegetables, but there is more.

  Lois Capps

  Encouragement, Children, School

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• I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day.

  Jesse Barfield

  Success, Sports, Team

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• Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

  Robert Breault

  Challenges, Formidable, Barriers

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• Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

  Janet Guthrie

  Racing, Use, Percent

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• This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

  Paul Cellucci

  War, Iraq, Planets

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• I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Reading, People, One Day

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• What I really like is minimum effort for maximum effect.

  Damien Hirst

  Minimum, Maximum, Effects

  1995 In the Idler, 10 Jul.

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• No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

  Daniel Dennett

  Smart, Matter, Way

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking”, p.3, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Growing Up, Sacrifice, Greed

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• The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

  Arnold Bennett

  Real, Men, Tragedy

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• Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Lying, Science, Night

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• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Inspirational, Leadership, Money

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• The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

  Eliza Farnham

  Truth, Mind, Meaning Of Life

  Eliza Wood Farnham (1864). “Woman and Her Era”, p.9

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

  Michael Winner

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

  Enrique Jardiel Poncela

  Writing, Gone, Writing Fiction

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• Science is a field which grows continuously with ever expanding frontiers. Further, it is truly international in scope. Science is a collaborative effort. The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.

  John Bardeen

  Hard Work, Science, People

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1972.

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• The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

  John F. Kennedy

  Government, People, Helping

  Latin American Diplomatic Corps Reception Speech, delivered day 13 March 1961, East Room, White House

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