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Effort Quotes
"There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment."
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"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."
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"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."
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"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."
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"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."
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"Every one of us is different in some way, but for those of us who are more different, we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing they can, just differently."
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"With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine."
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"I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links."
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"No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes " it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true " it is only you who can grant your own wishes."
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"Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work."
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"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."
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"I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort."
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"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."
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"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."
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"My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort."
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"You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder."
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"Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work."
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"Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort."
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"It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was."
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"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
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"Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?"
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"One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness."
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"They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do."
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"Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration."
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"The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are."
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"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."
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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."
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"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."
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"Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic."
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"When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology."
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"No one will ever blame you for trying to get it right."
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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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"It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race."
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"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."
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"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
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"You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too."
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"On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve."
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"None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort."
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