If there is a national, secular religion in the United States, it is the belief that America is the Land of Opportunity,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
To score points, you need a lot of consistent effort over the course of the game. If you're throwing it or running… — Tom Brady Copy Share Image
And then there were the wallflowers who had recognized for years that the thing was hopeless, who had found in that information… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh,… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage… — Allyson Schwartz Copy Share Image
It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of… — Eric Allin Cornell Copy Share Image
The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
“Like many middle-class Americans, especially those who are white and male, I was raised in a subculture that insisted I could do… — Peter Palmer Copy Share Image
Conservatives always knew that the Left made a concerted effort to dominate in the entertainment field because it's such a fabulous way… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not… — John Fischer Copy Share Image
If one's intellectual equipment was not great, one's spiritual experience not deep, the result of doing one's very best could only seem… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
With 28 million children eating lunch at school every day in the United States, I believe government has an obligation to ensure… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
One of our chief needs as creative beings is support. Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by. Ideally, we would be… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You've gotta wake up every morning and ask yourself, 'How bad do you want it?' How much work are you willing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Struggling against the legalism of simple obedience, we end by setting up the most dangerous law of all, the law of the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a… — Yaya Han Copy Share Image
There have been so many stories out there about me, so many untruths. I've always believed you can only control what you… — Will Grier Copy Share Image
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If we have an element of Americans here that reject western civilization, and that's a big element, that reject western civilization, then… — Steve King Copy Share Image
I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren't mine and neither are the energy… — Bo Lozoff Copy Share Image
My happiness came from learning my purpose, which is to be honest and to share things that normal people probably wouldn't share,… — Karrine Steffans Copy Share Image
A lot of effort and money are - rightly - expended keeping the president physically safe. But it's up to the president… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image