Quotes with effort

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  • Jesse Owens We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • William James We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bernard Bailyn What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 218
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Pat Riley When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Oswald Chambers When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Pat Riley When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Barney Frank When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Enrique Jardiel Poncela When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
    Enrique Jardiel Poncela
    Spanish writer (1901 - 1952)
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  • Maxwell Maltz When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative ''success mechanism'' within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or ''willpower.''
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alcee Hastings While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.
    Alcee Hastings
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Zig Ziglar Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Brad Delson With so many amazing artists on one bill, we expect this concert to be incredibly powerful in its ability to raise both money and awareness for the long-term rebuilding effort we must all support.
    Brad Delson
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • James Baldwin Words like ''freedom,'' ''justice,'' ''democracy'' are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Gordie Howe You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.
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  • Ben Stein You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The one thing that matters is the effort.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Helen Keller Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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