Effort Quotes
4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors
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When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you…
— Maxwell Maltz
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With every effort, I learned a lot. With every mistake and failure, not only mine, but of those around me, I learned what not to…
— Mark Cuban
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
— Peter Watts
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Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction…
— Al Gore
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For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
— Pearl S. Buck
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First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we…
— William J. Clinton
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For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial…
— Kofi Annan
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We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts…
— Mary Robinson
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Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have not goal that is important enough to you, or you are not…
— Maxwell Maltz
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The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through…
— Alexander Downer
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It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a…
— Ross Garnaut
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Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around…
— Barack Obama
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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life…
— Joanna Macy
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This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.
— Kofi Annan
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We believe that climate change must be viewed not only as a danger to natural systems, but also as a direct threat to human survival…
— Unknown Author
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Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system,…
— Richard Lindzen
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The insistence on complete certainty about the full details of global warming-the most serious threat we have ever faced-is actually an effort to avoid facing…
— Al Gore
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I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to…
— William Westmoreland
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Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.
— Dallas Willard
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I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict…
— Mark Twain
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the…
— Walter Lippmann
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I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General…
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis…
— William J. Clinton
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