Effort Quotes
4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors
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If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner... A winner is somebody who gave his best effort, who…
— Walter Payton
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I was shown a fledgling learning to fly. It's first efforts were very feeble. But as it used its wings more and more, they became…
— Eileen Caddy
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No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope…
— Boyd K. Packer
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Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin. What a comforting…
— Ann M. Dibb
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I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There is…
— Thaddeus Golas
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Materialistic success can be explained quite simply. Those who succeed focus their attention on success - not on their talent. Remember these words! All of…
— Brad Steiger
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It is only your self-identification with your mind that makes you happy or unhappy. Rebel against your slavery to your mind, see your bonds as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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As long as you cling to your self, you will wander right and left, day and night, for thousands of years; and when, after all…
— Sanai
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A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the powers of our mind, life, and body are bound to their own limitations, and however high they may rise or however widely expand,…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Engage, Enlighten, Encourage and especially...just be yourself! Social media is a community effort, everyone is an asset.
— Susan Cooper
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I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got…
— George Carlin
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The police and other law enforcements agencies are going to concentrate their efforts on organised crime, especially organised aggravated robbery
— Charles Nqakula
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The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Sometimes, if we are faced with obstacles, be they tangible or not, such as jealousy, worldly sentiment, greed, hatred or obsession, etc., there is no…
— Ching Hai
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We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training…
— Midge Decter
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Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and…
— G. Stanley Hall
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As teachers and coaches, we must remember that when mere winning is our only goal, we are doomed to disappointment and failure. But when our…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort.
— Mark Cuban
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
— William James
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and…
— Tom Peters
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People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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Most important of all, to be successful in life demands that a man make a personal commitment to excellence and to victory, even though the…
— Vince Lombardi
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The beloved of Allah are the perfume of Allah upon this world, but only the true, sincere believers have noses to smell them. They smell…
— Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi
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