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effort Quotes

49 of the best book quotes about effort
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“I realized that even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.”
Malala Yousafzai
Christina Lamb
authors
I Am Malala
book
trying your best
winning
effort
concepts
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“It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then stop at that.”
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“There’s no pleasin’ her, nohow, no matter how you try!”
Nancy
character
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“The gull sees farthest who flies highest.”
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“Extremely successful people know that their efforts must continue in order for them to realize new achievements. Once the hunt for a desired object or goal is abandoned, the cycle of success comes to an end.”
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″Luck is indeed where preparation meets opportunity.″
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“For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.”
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“This was evil’s hour: we could not run from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.”
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“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
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“It is not the brightest who succeed. ... Nor is success simply the sum of the decisions and efforts we make on our own behalf. It is, rather, a gift. Outliers are those that have been given an opportunities - and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.”
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Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
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“In order to kick ass you must first lift up your foot.”
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“There, I will stake my last like a woman of spirit. No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving or it”
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“Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
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“If it comes to swinging, swing all, say I.”
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“Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer.”
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“...as much as talent counts, effort counts twice.”
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“Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn’t. With effort, talent becomes skill and, at the very same time, effort makes skill productive.”
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“Staying on the treadmill is one thing, and I do think it’s related to staying true to our commitments even when we’re not comfortable. But getting back on the treadmill the next day, eager to try again, is in my view even more reflective of grit. Because when you don’t come back the next day—when you permanently turn your back on a commitment—your effort plummets to zero. As a consequence, your skills stop improving, and at the same time, you stop producing anything with whatever skills you have.”
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“Grit depends on a different kind of hope. It rests on the expectation that our own efforts can improve our future. I have a feeling tomorrow will be better is different from I resolve to make tomorrow better.”
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“First the force; and then The agent; next, the various instruments; Fourth, the especial effort; fifth, the God. What work soever any mortal doth Of body, mind, or speech, evil or good, By these five doth he that.”
Anonymous
author
Krishna
character
faith
actions
effort
concepts
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“We must come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and persistent work of men willing to be coworkers with God, and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.”
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“I think we are innately suspicious of this kind of rapid cognition. We live in a world that assumes that the quality of a decision is directly related to the time and effort that went into making it.”
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“Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.”
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“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.”
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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy
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There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution.
Emma
book
Mr. Knightley
character
effort
duty
concepts
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I try all things, I achieve what I can.
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“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.”
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The game was in his eyes a contest, a struggle with a difficulty, yet a motionless, unwearying struggle, congenial to his tastes.
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If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.
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″. . . the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn’t understand was that the grass was greenest where it’s watered.”
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“Clutter is caused by a failure to return things to where they belong. Therefore, storage should reduce the effort needed to put things away, no the effort needed to get them out.”
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“Obviously, leading the simple wabi-sabi life requires some effort and will and also some tough decisions.”
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“You cannot have everything in the present. The road to mastery requires patience. You will have to keep your focus on five or ten years down the road, when you will reap the rewards of your efforts. The process of getting there, however, is full of challenges and pleasures.”
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“Leonardo tried very hard to be scary.”
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“And the monster gave it all he had.”
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Shooting and shouting result, and the family is ordered to leave the country. An almost duplicate scene labeled “Eritrea” follows. In an effort to show that neither country embraces the union of this Ethiopian man and Eritrean woman and its progeny, the question immediately arises, are the soldiers Ethiopian or Eritrean?
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″‘Because everything requires energy,’ she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. ‘We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.‘”
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“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
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“Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it’s time for them to be hurt.”
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“If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.”
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“With a great effort of will he shed Ludwig from his mind and turned to his friends.”
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“What is not for you can never be for you. No amount of sheer will or work, no amount of bending or shape-shifting will make it so. No act or effort, no apology, no amount of therapy or prayer or repetition, no self-help, no distraction, no matter how hard you try, you can never force anything that isn’t meant to be.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
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“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
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“I recognize that winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.”

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