Great Effort Quotes

• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Determination

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.144, Lulu.com

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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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• Great things only come with great effort.

  Art Briles

  Effort, Great Things

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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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• Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Volleyball, Attitude

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  We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

  Jesse Owens

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Courage, Badass

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

  Enrique Jardiel Poncela

  Writing, Effort, Gone

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• So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Courage, Badass, Military

  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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• To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Introductory speech at a session of the French Academy, December 24, 1896.

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• Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Happiness, Motivation

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(411 p.)”, p.88

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• With great effort comes great gratification.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Effort, Gratification

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.241, Storey Publishing

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• If you know your being, there is no question of becoming. All that you could have ever imagined to become you already are. You are gods who have forgotten who they are. You are emperors who have fallen asleep and are dreaming that they have become beggars. Now beggars are trying to become emperors, in dreams they are making great efforts to become emperors, and all that is needed is to wake up!" Osho

  Rajneesh

  Dream, Effort, Trying

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• Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.

  Jerzy Kukuczka

  Climbing, Effort, Pleasure

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• Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

  Geneen Roth

  Real, Effort, Quick Fixes

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

  Wallace Stegner

  Nature, Effort, Might

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• Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

  Bill Johnson

  Effort, Surrender, Great Faith

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• Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sweet, Effort, Suffering

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• Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Thinking, Effort, Watches

  Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together.

  Al McGuire

  Sports, Moving, Successful

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• It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Effort, Half, Gains

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• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Achievement, Effort

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• Unfortunately, I have dedicated great effort to the task of compiling this ‘sensitive words glossary,’ and I have mastered my filtering skills. I knew which words and sentences had to be cut, and I accepted the cutting as if that was the way it should be. In fact, I will often take it on myself to save time and cut a few words. I call this ‘castrated writing’ - I am a proactive eunuch, I have already castrated myself before the surgeon raises his scalpel.

  Murong Xuecun

  Writing, Cutting, Skills

  "Words We Can Use, and Those We Can Not". www.nytimes.com. February 24, 2011.

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• A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Philosophy, Effort, Way

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• [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

  Blaise Pascal

  Reading, Book, Men

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