Quotes on effort
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
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People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.
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The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
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Garth Henrichs Quotes
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
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Ulysses S. Grant Quotes
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
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Edward Gibbon Quotes
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
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Plutarch Quotes
The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
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God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose.
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God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
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J.G. Holland Quotes
Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led diffcult lives and led them well.
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Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
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Edward H. Harriman Quotes
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Quotes
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.
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Dutch Proverb Quotes
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
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Heywood Hale Broun Quotes
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
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Gloria Pitzer Quotes
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
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Ann Landers Quotes
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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Thomas Edison Quotes
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
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T.S. Eliot Quotes
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
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Sarah Brown Quotes
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
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American Proverb Quotes
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough.
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Sophia Loren Quotes
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
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Confucius Quotes
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
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Mark Burnett Quotes
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
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Swami Sivananda Quotes
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
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Sam Ewing Quotes
If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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Will Rogers Quotes
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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José Ortega y Gassett Quotes
I worked hard my whole life - no one handed me a record deal.
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Lady Gaga Quotes
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Doors don't slam open.
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John M. Shanahan Quotes
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Barack Obama Quotes