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I don't play small. You have to go out and play with what you have. I admit I used to want to be tall. But I made it in high school, college, and now the pros. So it doesn't matter.
Spud Webb
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Plato
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different- to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
John Fischer
I like to be against the odds. I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top. With me, it's just the satisfaction of the game. Just performance.
Barry Bonds
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
William James
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
Hannah Arendt
Where there is no hope there can be no endeavor
Samuel Johnson
I've only ever wanted to be a singer I never wanted to be famous.
Katherine Jenkins
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Lucille Ball
One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.
Byron Nelson
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull.
Zig Ziglar
Most of our spending is done to forward our efforts to look like others.
Leo Tolstoy
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus
One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller