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Exlpore more Effort quotes
"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"Everything is hard before it is easy."
"It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done."
"If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you."
"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."
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
Explore more quotes by Quentin Crisp
"There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse."
"Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin."
"Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps."
"The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right."
"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."
"I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum."
"The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as "Soho" poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent."
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