Quotes of Effort - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ”

- Ben Stein

“ One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ For what is a poem, but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding. It is the deepest part of autobiography. ”

- Robert Penn Warren

“ War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. ”

- John Dryden

“ The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. ”

- John D. Rockefeller

“ Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. ”

- Wayne Gretzky

“ About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. ”

- Gloria Pitzer

“ Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ The only test of leadership is that somebody follows. ”

- Robert K. Greenleaf

“ When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help. ”

- Robert Half

“ Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. ”

- Jane Addams

“ We must find a way, or we will make one. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? ”

- Robert Schuller

“ Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it ”

- John Ruskin

“ Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny ”

- C.S. Lewis

“ The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power. ”

- Clint Eastwood

“ A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ”

- Chuck Palahniuk

“ It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. ”

- James Ramsey Ullman

“ Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love, O liberty! my spirit felt thee there. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ And what love can do, that does love attempt. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you can walk, you can run. ”

- Publilius Syrus
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