Effort Quotes

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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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A work of art makes a great impression on us only when it gi

A work of art makes a great impression on us only when it gives us something which, even with all the efforts of our intellect, we cannot understand completely.

Art Work Effort

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

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We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to libe

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that h

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

Gotthold Lessing

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I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least

I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.

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If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do any

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

William Of Occam

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The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence o

The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

Charles Dickens

Effort Absence

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, thro

Only the truth which was acquired by your own thinking, through the efforts of your intellect, becomes a member of your own body, and only this truth really belongs to us.

Truth Effort

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

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The only method by which people can be supported is out of t

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

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The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his e

The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life.

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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

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There is a condition in which a person feels himself the arc

There is a condition in which a person feels himself the architect of his life. It occurs when he concentrates all his efforts and all his intellect on the present moment.

Life Effort

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and har

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

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You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even whe

You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

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