Continuous Effort Quotes

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strength, Success, Yoga

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Achievement, Effort

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• Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Effort, Genius

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.28, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.154, A&C Black

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

  "Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

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• Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

  Bruce Lee

  Persistence, Practice, Effort

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.126, Tuttle Publishing

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Peace, Effort, Taiwan

  BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.

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• Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  People, Effort, Needs

  Liberty Hyde Bailey (1910). “Reprints of Addresses”

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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  Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Life, Strength

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

  Chris Bradford

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Letting Go, Strong, Thinking

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• It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

  Sheila Walsh

  Voice, Effort, Schedules

  Sheila Walsh (2010). “Good Morning, Lord: I Don't Know Where You're Going Today But I'm Going with You”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous impatience. Once implemented they can be easily overturned or subverted through apathy or lack of follow-up, so a continuous effort is required.

  Hyman Rickover

  Leadership, Practice, Ideas

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• It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.

  Kate Smith

  Effort, Trying, Lines

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