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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. (Quote by - Liane Cordes)

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. (Quote by - Jose Ortega Y Gasset)

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. (Quote by - Joseph de Maistre)

The path to success is to take massive, determined action. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. (Quote by - Justin Timberlake)

In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves. (Quote by - Ruth Goode)

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet. (Quote by - Paul Cellucci)

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)

I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day. (Quote by - Jesse Barfield)

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)

Nothing can come of nothing. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Quote by - Bible)

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. (Quote by - Charles Babbage)

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