Quotes with effort

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  • Claude M. Bristol It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
    Claude M. Bristol
    American writer
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  • Russell Hoban Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Vince Lombardi Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Anais Nin Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Quentin Crisp Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Blaise Pascal Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Erich Fromm Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • William James Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Aldous Huxley Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Euripides Much effort, much prosperity.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Lewis Thomas Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • A. E. Housman My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
    Letter to Neilson Abeel (October 4, 1935).
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Ban Ki-moon My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation, can make you too serious and that seriousness will create a spiritual disease and nothing else. Unless a meditation brings you more laughter, more joy, more playfulness, avoid it. It is not for you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • George Eliot No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Ruskin No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Roger Staubach Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
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  • Bhagavad Gita On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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