Quotes with effort

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  • Calvin Coolidge I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Charles M. Schwab I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Brooke Burke I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bob Richards I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
    Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • A. A. Milne If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Branch Rickey If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Pat Riley If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • James Allen In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Charles M. Schwab In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.
    Charles M. Schwab
    American industrialist (1862 - 1939)
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  • Vince Lombardi Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Robert Browning Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bryant H. McGill It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Balthazar Getty It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Bill Hicks It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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