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Effort Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We put our love where we have put our labor.
- Love is our highest word and the synonym for God.
- The efforts which we make to escape from our destiny only serve to lead us into it.
- 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;…
- The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening…
- Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.
- Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.
- It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know…
- What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous…
- The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race.
- Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister