Effort Quotes
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God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked you down, your willingness to believe that what they said had value, was your conspiring with them, with their effort to knock you down - I've never been able to get myself up and I've noticed that every time I ask God to pick me up - he does.
Marianne Williamson
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It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.
Dalai Lama
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The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.
Stuart Chase
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A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
Dalai Lama
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Halcyon people have put aside and left their homes, their million dollar salaries, full professorships at major universities, and fully seed-funded startup companies to be part of this effort.
Luke Nosek
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If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
James Dyson
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My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.
Adrian Belew
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When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.
Sherman Alexie
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Leading the coalition military effort during the surge in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was the most important endeavor - and greatest challenge - of my 37 years in uniform.
David Petraeus
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
George Haven Putnam
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Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world.
Dalai Lama
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I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.
Barack Obama
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Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.
Les Brown
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What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
Sean O'Casey
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We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.
Mark V. Hurd
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I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.
T.I.
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The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.
Lorrie Fair
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We have to be very cognizant of the fact that 90 percent of the electronic media in this country is owned, operated, programmed, and controlled by conservatives. They made a concerted effort during and before the Reagan years that they were going to get the microphone.
Ed Schultz
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Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.
Charles L. Whitfield
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.
Lou Holtz
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
William Hazlitt
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This would have been a bad one to lose, man, because we did put our effort on defense. We did play one of the best defensive games that we played.
Allen Iverson
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We support every effort to combat international terrorism through the formulation of international conventions and hope that the international community will take further steps to improve the anti-terrorism international legal framework.
Li Peng
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You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
George Foreman