Quotes about effort, page 3

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
quote by Mahatma Gandhi
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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
quote by Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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Every Poem Is Another Effort
EVERY POEM IS ANOTHER EFFORT
Every poem is another effort
To make the Unknown-
Smile.
poem by Shalom Freedman
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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
quote by Sam Waterston
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
quote by Calvin Coolidge
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It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
quote by Jessica Savitch
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I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.
John Fowles in The Magus
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Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.
quote by Charles J. Givens
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