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  In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

  James Allen

  Strength, Determination, Service Culture

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

  Jimmy Johnson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Fictional character: Dan". "Waiting...", www.imdb.com. 2005.

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.91, University of Toronto Press

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• Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before.

  Shelby Steele

  Success, Struggle, Hard Work

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  Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem". Book by Wayne Dyer, 1975.

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• Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.

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• The harder I work the more I live.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Good Luck, True Joy

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Basketball, Art, Hurt

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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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• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Leadership, Graduation

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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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  No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Perseverance, Effort, Succeed

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• We put our love where we have put our labor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Our Love, Labor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• We work to become, not to acquire.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Motivational, Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

  Maxim Gorky

  Life, Success, Work

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• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back'!

  Dale Archer

  Jobs, Giving Up, Kids

  "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

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• God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Effort, Found

  Mark Twain, Louis J. Budd (1992). “Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays: 1891-1910”

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• Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

  Moliere

  Play, Giving, Effort

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.45, Penguin

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• You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

  Aesop

  Effort, May, Share

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Men, Effort, Too Much

  Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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