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Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer )

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. (Quote by - Lawrence Ferlinghetti)

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)

I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. (Quote by - Walter Payton)

Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)

As far as I'm concerned, that incident and Mark Cueto's effort from Charlie Hodgson's cross-field kick that led to what looked like a good try were the two key elements in the game. (Quote by - Josh Lewsey)

I find it an effort to keep up appearances. (Quote by - Dusty Springfield)

I'm pleased with the week. It wasn't such a bad effort in getting to the final and playing five matches in five days. (Quote by - Mary Pierce)

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)

If you can walk, you can run. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. (Quote by - Paul Nurse)

Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people. (Quote by - Jon Porter)

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was. (Quote by - Buffalo Bill)

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. (Quote by - Barney Frank)

If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. (Quote by - Ada Teixeira)

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)

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