Effort Quotes - Page 11

• Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.

  Sophia Loren

  Believe, Thinking, Discipline

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

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• The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

  Colin Powell

  Success, Military, Winning

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

  Jane Addams

  Stay Strong, Peace, Giving Up

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• Leaders aren't born they are made.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Discipline

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• The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Perseverance

  'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)

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• A winning effort begins with preparation.

  Joe Gibbs

  Winning, Nfl, Preparation

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• Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

  Emma Goldman

  Forgiveness, Independent, Thinking

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

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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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• I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Team, Thinking

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• Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

  Naomi Campbell

  Children, Care, Our Future

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• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Work, Mean, Growth

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

  George Santayana

  Prayer, People, Ends

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.138, 谷月社

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• But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Positive, Meaningful, Hope

  "Elizabeth Edwards dies after battle with cancer", www.cnn.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Today, Novel

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• Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Art, War, Community Living

  Allen Ginsberg (2007). “Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties”, p.110, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

  Gordie Howe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Creativity, Mean

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• The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

  Barack Obama

  Leadership, America, Deserve Better

  "It's Worth Actually Reading Obama's 2006 Debt Ceiling Speech". www.slate.com. October 09, 2013.

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• Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

  Stephen Leacock

  Sunday, Golf, Views

  Over the Footlights (1923) "Why I Refuse to Play Golf"

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• I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

  Thomas Lynch

  Mean, Lazy, Tasks

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• The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

  Thomas Malthus

  Mean, Numbers, People

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.52, Penguin UK

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• Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

  Lewis Thomas

  Music, Brain, Listening

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.

  John D. Rockefeller III

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• I sometimes tell students the only guarantee you've got is the music and no-one can take that away from you. Only you can take that away from you-by not practicing and not putting in enough elbow grease. The more you put into your music, the more your passion for it will grow.

  Mike Stern

  Music, Hard Work, Passion

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