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Effort Quotes
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
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"You can't plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn't get done."
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"Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields."
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"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection."
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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew."
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"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
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"Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach the edge. Then be kind and rewind."
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"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."
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"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society."
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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
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"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
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"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."
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"I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that's hard to look at.."
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
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"Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved."
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"Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best."
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"If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you."
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"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
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"Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly."
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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."
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"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little."
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"When you do great things, think as if you missed the mark by an inch; walk as if you are yet to face the greatest task; talk as if you are yet to have the best preparation for the momentous moment and dream as if you are fighting a battalion of tasks."
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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty."
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"You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do."
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"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."
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