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For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)

The difference last year was so small - it was a symbolic gesture for the last couple of years - but finally the club have realised it's not worth the effort to maintain it. (Quote by - Peter Fleming)

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses (Quote by - John Fischer)

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill )

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. (Quote by - Bo Bennett )

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. (Quote by - Joanna Lumley)

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. (Quote by - Enrique Jardiel Poncela)

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. (Quote by - William Osler)

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler )

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. (Quote by - Chinua Achebe)

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down. (Quote by - Jack Johnson )

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (Quote by - George Eliot)

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! (Quote by - Robert Browning)

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals. (Quote by - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)

I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best. (Quote by - William Danforth)

A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. (Quote by - Stephen Butler Leacock)

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