Great Effort Quotes - Page 2

After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat.

Narendra Modi

Hockey, Effort, Sticks

Twitter post from Oct 29, 2014

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We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

Dalai Lama

Buddhist, Effort, Renaissance

Source: www.motherjones.com

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If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

Francois Fenelon

Should Have, Perfection, Effort

Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.168, Lulu.com

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I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort.

Eugene Green

Simplicity, Effort, Spontaneous

Source: www.avclub.com

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Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Horace

Moving, Exercise, Effort

"The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside". Book by Stella Pelengaris, p. 376, March 5, 2013.

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To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.

K. W. Jeter

Past, Effort, Mind

K W Jeter (2011). “Infernal Devices”, p.49, Duncan Baird Publishers

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Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially.

Michael Sandel

School, Kids, Effort

Source: www.pbs.org

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In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

Judy Woodruff

Effort, African American, American Voters

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All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Virchand Gandhi

Names, Effort, Doctrine

"Christian Missions: A Triangular Debate, Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York". The Monist Magazine, Volume 5, 1895.

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Writing a screenplay, I'm like, "All I'm responsible for is that final script, and I take great effort and pride in that." But once I give it to someone to make, I can disassociate with it entirely and not worry that my vision isn't being represented, because I understand fully that that's not how it works.

Daniel Clowes

Writing, Pride, Giving

Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. May 30, 2012.

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God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Effort, Grace, Realization

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Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Robertson Davies

Fashion, Smart, People

Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man

Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Men, Ideas, Profound

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Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.

Alejandro Castro Espin

Country, Jobs, Mean

"The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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You could carry your burdens lightly or with great effort. You could worry about tomorrow or not. You could imagine horrible fates or garland-filled tomorrows. None of it mattered as long as you moved, as long as you did something. Asking why was fine, but it wasn't action. Nothing brought the rewards of moving, of running. Sometimes you just do things.

Scott Jurek

Running, Moving, Fate

Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.94, A&C Black

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It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that. At first putting forth great effort to be sure that you have grasped the basics, then practicing so that they may come to fruition is something that will never stop for your whole lifetime. Do not rely on following the degree of understanding that you have discovered, but simply think, "This is not enough."

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Life, Mistake, Thinking

Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2012). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.

Hadewijch

Christian, Pain, Blessed

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Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

People, Justice, Effort

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Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

Dizzy Dean

Mean, Effort

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Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

Samael Aun Weor

Confused, People, Effort

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You have perhaps waited for years to be freed from some need. For a long, long time you have looked out from the darkness in search of the light, and have had a difficult problem in life that you have not been able to solve in spite of great efforts. And then, when the time was fulfilled and God's hour had come, did not a solution, light, and deliverance come quite unexpectedly, perhaps quite differently than you thought?

Eberhard Arnold

Light, Years, Long

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As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

Haile Selassie

Successful, Simple, Effort

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Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Independent, Judging, People

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Theodore Roosevelt

Effort, Intellectual, Done

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But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

Garth Stein

Children, Heart, Past

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