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“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” —Napoleon Hill (1883-1970), motivational author “hard work good things happen” —Andy Sanchez “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb “Work is love made visible.” —Khalil Gibran (1883– 1931), artist, poet, and writer “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), scholar, writer, philosopher “Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. ” —Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988), Novelist, short story author, essayist, screenwriter “If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort.” —Weinbaum “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.” —James Allen, famous quotes “I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.” —Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader “The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.” —Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher “The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.” —Colin Powell (b. 1937), 65th U.S. Secretary of State “One may go a long way after one is tired.” —French proverb “The three qualities necessary for training: Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort.” —Zen proverb “Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.” —David Augsburger “The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” —Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), artist “Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.” —Denis Waitley, famous quotes “We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.” —William James (1842-1910), psychologist, philosopher “Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.” —Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), philosopher “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.” —Richard Bach (b. 1936), writer “Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory.” —Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian political and spiritual leader “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), philosopher, poet, essayist “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” —Robert J. Collier (1876-1918), writer “The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.” —Roger Bannister (b. 1929), athlete “Success is dependent on effort.” —Sophocles (496-406), dramatist “He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.” —Thomas Fuller “Continuous effort not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.” —Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa] (1863-1950), Lakota chief “It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.” —Claude M. Bristol “Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.” —John Ruskin (1819-1900), writer, art critic “Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. President “Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” —Bill Blackmun “The one thing that matters is the effort.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), aviator, writer “Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.” —Arnold Bennett (1867-1931), novelist “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” —Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th U.S. President “Much effort, much prosperity.” —Euripedes (480-406 B.C.), tragedian “Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.” —Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th U.S. President
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