Quotes with effort

Quotes 141 till 160 of 180.

  • Denis Waitley The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bill Dedman The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Charles Mackay The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Albert Bushnell Hart The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
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  • Remy de Gourmont The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
    Remy de Gourmont
    French writer, poet and philosopher (1858 - 1915)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Liu Shao-Ch'I There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
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  • Henry Miller There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Bernhard von Bulow This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • Zig Ziglar This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Bill Rancic This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered.
    Bill Rancic
    American entrepreneur (1971 - )
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  • Bill Hicks Those guys were in hog heaven, man. They had a weapons catalog, What's G-12 do, Tommy? Says here it destroys everything but the fillings in their teeth, helps pay for the war effort. Well, shit, pull that one up! Pull up G-12, please. ] ...Cool. What's G-13 do?
    Relentless
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Mark Van Doren To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.
    Mark Van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • David Viscott To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Sir William Osler To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Augustus William Hare To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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