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Quote 3603
Every time we let ourselves believe for unworthy reasons, we weaken our powers of self-control, of doubting, of judicially and fairly weighing evidence.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3570
I resolved for the future to have two or three years' corn beforehand.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 3548
No effort will be considered too high a price to ensure the triumph of a nobler humanity.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3547
France is making incredible sacrifices every day.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3546
I have nothing to say about myself, except that I am doing my best, with the feeling that it will never be enough.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3534
There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3526
It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3512
We have no reason to fear lest a habit of conscientious inquiry should paralyze the actions of our daily life.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3511
It is our duty to act upon probabilities, although the evidence is not such as to justify present belief.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3507
He never even for a day dismounted his hobby, but rode it manfully to the last.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3506
He did all a poor Protestant can do to tempt generosity.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3505
Bodley was always on the look-out for gifts and bequests from his store of honourable friends.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3492
In case of friction, the machine is always at fault.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3489
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3488
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3487
No newspaper reading in trains!by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3486
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3485
He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3484
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3483
You can only waste the passing moment.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3482
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3477
The way is to the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep you up.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3475
It is not good for you to find you cannot make your dream come true, for the reason that you not strong enough are, or not clever enough.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3302
If he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3301
There is no effort without error and shortcoming.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3139
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 3064
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of workShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 3061
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 3047
By perseverance the snail reached the arkShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 3001
Life is a struggle, but not a warfareby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2930
All wealth is the product of labor.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2850
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.Showing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2763
You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thoughtby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2750
It is much safer to obey, than to governby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2709
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatestby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2674
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obeyShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2642
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.Showing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2618
God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2606
All of nature is a battlefieldShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2596
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existenceShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2592
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attainedShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2591
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.Showing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2585
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be doneShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2478
It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a stateShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2429
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himselfby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2427
Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinatelyby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2408
Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itselfby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2407
And while the law (of competition) may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every departmentby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2298
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin againby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2280
A minute's success pays the failure of yearsby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2273
I was ever a fighter, so - one fight more, the best and the last!by: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2214
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselvesby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2197
If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers.Showing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2154
No one can really pull you up very high - you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountainsShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2142
Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject . . . The greatest torture in the world for most people is to thinkby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2096
The busy bee has no time for sorrowby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2087
He who doubts from what he sees will never believe, do what you pleaseby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2080
Great things are done when men and mountains meetby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 2058
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an artShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2021
Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the seaShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2012
Small projects need much more help than great onesby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 2007
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairsby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1990
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 1942
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain forby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1641
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicatedby: ConfuciusShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 1594
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless officeby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1569
Men tire themselves in pursuit of restby: Lawrence SterneShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 1518
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 1517
There is no substitute for hard workShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 1513
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard workShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1511
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.by: HorazShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 1330
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain itby: William JamesShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1306
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friendby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1290
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.Showing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1254
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?Showing Quotes on effort
Quote 1226
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduousShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 1214
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruitby: MoliereShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1135
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligenceShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1124
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I moveby: Alfred TennysonShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1112
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to applyby: Josh BillingsShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1100
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start youngShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1056
Willpower is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can seeShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1050
Success is dependent on effortby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1047
Diligence is the mother of good fortuneShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 1040
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumphby: Thomas PaineShowing Quotes on effort
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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too lowby: Thomas FullerShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 973
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruitby: AristotleShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 937
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do somethingShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 913
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourselfShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 910
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatnessShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 909
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer itby: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 895
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it upby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 842
Babies are always more trouble than you thought -- and more wonderful.by: Charles OsgoodShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 799
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human beingShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 559
Nothing will come of nothingShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 465
The price of greatness is responsibilityShowing Quotes on effort
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Quote 460
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything elseShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 448
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heavenShowing Quotes on effort
Quote 444
Sometimes even to live is an act of courageShowing Quotes on effort
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on effort
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