Effort quotations

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◆ If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

- Emily Bront?99

◆ The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

- Vera Nazarian99

◆ The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

- Mary Shelley99

◆ Walls don't fall without effort.

- Neal Shusterman99

◆ 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... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

- William James99

◆ I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

- Craig Ferguson99

◆ He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

- Paul Brunton99

◆ It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

- Jillian Michaels99

◆ No one ever drowned in sweat.

- United States Marine Corps99

◆ When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

- Sophocles99

◆ The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

- Bruce Lee99

◆ The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

- Ashly Lorenzana99

◆ Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the cold sky of the passing winter. Sit still with me and meditate on how useless effort is, how alien the will, and on how our very meditation is no more useful than effort, and no more our own than the will. Meditate too on how a life that wants nothing can have no weight in the flux of things, but a life the wants everything can likewise have no weight in the flux of things, since it cannot obtain everything, and to obtain less than everything is not worthy of souls that seek the truth.

- Fernando Pessoa99

◆ I don't want to be your second choice anymore. If I'm not your first choice, then just turn around & walk away now. I'm worth more than that...

- Nishan Panwar99

◆ If someone wants to see you they'll make time, if not they'll make an excuse. Excuses aren't a good sign. Sometimes it is better to let people go.

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