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Effort Quotes
"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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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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"The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill] gets a piece of oil-cake (as a reward), the wife gives the husband a piece of handvo (savory lentil and rice cake), and so the work continues. All day long, one is producing like the bull in the oil mill."
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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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"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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"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"A mediocre response often is what achieves mediocre results."
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"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."
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"Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society."
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"If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall."
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"Work while you have strength."
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"Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best."
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"Like yeast, it's impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one's efforts grow and expand."
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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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"God has a plan and guess what? The plan is to stop waiting for him to do everything for you. The person you want in your life is not a sign. Not a clue. Not a wish. Not a prayer. Not a tarot card or a matter of timing. It is work. It is devotion, and like any dream if you want it then God will open doors for you to obtain it. You just have to stop setting the bar so low that everything below is a sign from God and everything above is asking too much."
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"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
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"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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"If you want to enjoy confidence, engagement, positive feedback, connection, and reward in your relationships, start being and doing what it takes to make it happen."
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"Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better."
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"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."
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"Life demands much. Give more."
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"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
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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 there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have."
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"They will cry, he will shout but you must sweat."
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"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"
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