Effort Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Motivational, Determination

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.38, Pelican Publishing

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• One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pain, Trouble, Oneself

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”

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• Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.

  Ken Venturi

  Trying, Sometimes, Happens

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• Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

  William James

  Life And Love, Exercise, Alive

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cycling

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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• Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, God, Spiritual

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.445, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Moving On

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

  J. G. Holland

  Success, God, Work

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• Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Congratulations, Men, Judging

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• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Inspirational, Work, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

  Bill Vaughan

  Sunday, Golf, Views

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• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational Sports, Powerful, Greatness

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• Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Failure, Self, Finals

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• The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

  Helen Keller

  Teacher, Cheer, Teaching

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

  Thomas Paine

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Motivation

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• You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Persistence, Appreciate

  Twitter post from Feb 28, 2015

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• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

  Joseph Heller

  Failure, Men, Self

  1961 Of Colonel Cargill. Catch-22, ch.3.

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• From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Compassion, Sea, Shining

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Music, Ducks, Merit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We must apply our humble efforts to the construction of a more just and humane world. And I want to declare emphatically: Such a world is possible. To create this new society, we must present outstretched and friendly hands, without hatred and rancor, even as we show great determination and never waver in the defense of truth and justice. Because we know that we cannot sow seeds with clenched fists. To sow we must open our hands.

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel

  Determination, Peace, Humble

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• Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in a single multiform cause, and they will gain strength by knowing it, taking encouragement from it, and when appropriate and opportune, pooling their efforts.

  Jonathan Schell

  Strength, Encouragement, Knowing

  Jonathan Schell (2005). “The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People”

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• The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

  Howard Aiken

  Errors, Desire, Mental Health

  "Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.

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• The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

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