Effort Quotes

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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine.… — Mahmoud Abbas
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely… — Julian Assange
Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform. And there's a… — Julian Assange
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on… — Charles Babbage
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my… — Peter Ackroyd
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even… — James A. Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that… — James A. Baldwin
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth… — Johnny Ball
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to… — Henry Adams
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children… — Evan Bayh
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet:… — Scott Adams
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher
We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta… — Ed Begley, Jr.
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels… — Arnold Bennett
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put… — Anna Benson

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