"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

Effort, Work, Life, Achievement

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"No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."

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"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

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"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."

Paul Tagliabue, American Executive

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"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

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"Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

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"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

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"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."

Lorrie Fair, American Athlete

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"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."

Motivational

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

Motivation

"I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."

Politics

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

Morality

"The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."

Politics

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft!"

Philosophy

"Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."

Environment

"I feel like a Bull Moose."

Personality

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Integrity

"I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!"

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