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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Books - Reading
Samuel Johnson

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Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Effort
John F. Kennedy

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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Teams and Teamwork
Vince Lombardi

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
Theology
H. L. Mencken

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If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
Lies and Lying
A. A. Milne

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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Effort
Arnold Palmer

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Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Happiness
Gretta Brooker Palmer

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We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Protest
Emmeline Pankhurst

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God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
Space
Pius XII

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The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Effort
Colin Powell

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Fame is a constant effort
Fame
Jules Renard

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Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Attitude
Pat Riley

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No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.
Self-reliance
Frederick W. Robertson

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I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Effort
John D. Rockefeller

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Things will get better -- despite our efforts to improve them.
Improvement
Will Rogers

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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Effort
Jim Rohn

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Effort
Theodore Roosevelt

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A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
Greatness
John Ruskin

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Ability
John Ruskin

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The one thing that matters is the effort.
Effort
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
George Santayana

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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
Prayer
George Santayana

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The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
Arts and Artists
George Santayana

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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Faces
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun