Effort Quotes - Page 6

• Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.

  Ralph Marston

  Differences, Doe, Add

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

  Henri Matisse

  Artist, Creative, Vision

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• As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Rights, Government, Ideas

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• I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

  Alvin Williams

  Moving, Thinking, Looks

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• Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

  Salman Rushdie

  Safety, Trying, Too Much

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

  Terry Gilliam

  New York, Team, Years

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• We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

  Robert Breault

  Fate, Tides, Blame

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• We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Teamwork, Saint, Louisiana

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• At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education, is a certain form of energy; the object to be gained is economy of his force; the training is partly the clearing away of obstacles, partly the direct application of effort. Once acquired, the tools and models may be thrown away.

  Henry Adams

  Education, Teacher, Men

  Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work

  Dalai Lama

  God, Organization, People

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• People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Blood, People, Gone

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• Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Progress, Trying

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• We, as citizens or members of people's organisations...can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.

  Katarina Kruhonja

  War, Long, People

  Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.

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• I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

  James M. Cain

  Tough, Conscious, Grim

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• If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being

  Joanna Macy

  Love, Web Of Life, People

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• It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

  Matt Drudge

  Way, Losing, Rating

  "Matt Drudge on Chris Rock's Oscar Controversy". "Hannity & Colmes" with Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. February 14, 2005.

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• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Anger, Grace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

  Alexis Carrel

  Hurt, People, Helping

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• Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

  Paul Coffey

  Life, Sports, Perseverance

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• It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Yesterday, Littles

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vaccines, Action, Rich

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

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• Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Success, Cutting, Knives

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

  Chuck Norris

  Motivational, Fitness, Hope

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