Effort

(50 votes)   I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best.

William Danforth
American Entrepreneur, Author

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(405 votes)   The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(255 votes)   champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!

Judi Adler

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(205 votes)   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
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(193 votes)   What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(188 votes)   The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

Albert Einstein
1879-1955, German-born American Physicist

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(187 votes)   Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Robert Browning
1812-1889, British Poet

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(187 votes)   The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(182 votes)   Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(173 votes)   If a man has done his best, what else is there?

George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II

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(169 votes)   I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(157 votes)   Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Harry S. Truman
1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

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(144 votes)   In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

John F. Kennedy
1917-1963, Thirty-fifth President of the USA

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(134 votes)   I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

John D. Rockefeller
1839-1937, American Industrialist, Philanthropist, Founder Exxon

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(132 votes)   One may go a long way after one is tired.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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