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Effort Quotes
"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."
"Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man."
"You have to really want and need it before you earn it."
"If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy."
"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly."
"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."
"If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little."
"Talent helps, but success is only achieved and sustained through consistent effort."
"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."
"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
"There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer."
"While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort."
"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
"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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