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Effort Quotes


"If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall."


"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."


"Effort will always triumph over unapplied potential."


"You have to really want and need it before you earn it."


"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."


"And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is not quite the same thing."


"Wishes only come true to those who work relentlessly."


"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."


"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."


"For an apple you can't reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won't bend down for you!"


"Hard work will never kill you, it's only going to make you gain more muscles to gather your bumper harvests! Do it and do it hard!"


"If someone tells you that you can achieve your dreams with little to no work, they are lying to you."


"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?"


"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."
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