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Effort Quotes


"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."


"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."


"None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort."


"I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security."


"Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it."


"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."


"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."


"My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort."


"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."


"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."


"They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do."


"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."


"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."


"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."


"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."


"I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show."


"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."


"He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times."


"Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?"


"Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you."


"Diligence, hard work, perseverance, excellence are the values that will make us have developed society."


"The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better."


"Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference."


"When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person."


"The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort."


"If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall."


"I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious."


"The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all."


"Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth."


"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort."


"I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient."


"The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted."


"It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings."
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