Effort Quotes
4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors
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Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has…
— Pericles
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the…
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Tennis can be a very frustrating sport. There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. You have to put in the hours because…
— Roger Federer
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I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is…
— Jimmy Carter
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I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.
— Dan Quayle
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Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So, as…
— Henry A. Kissinger
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The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in…
— Mohammad Khatami
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Propose to an Englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed…
— Charles Babbage
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If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort,…
— Jose Limon
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Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.
— Mitt Romney
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These rough sketches, which are born in an instant in the heat of inspiration, express the idea of their author in a few strokes, while…
— Giorgio Vasari
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The campaign of character assassination waged [against President Clinton] by the right was a singular, unprecedented effort. Nothing like it exists on the left. What…
— David Brock
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Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
— Poul Anderson
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I believe most definitely that one must not only grapple with the problems on the board, one must also make every effort to combat the…
— Mikhail Tal
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Some people are more experimental in bed and others are more boring. If you are wild and crazy, bring it on so the other person…
— Heidi Klum
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We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
— William Graham Sumner
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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an…
— William Graham Sumner
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You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
— George Foreman
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As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people…
— David Horowitz
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While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials…
— Harriet Miers
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I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you…
— Chet Baker
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When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in…
— Ingmar Bergman
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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with…
— Abdul Kalam
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