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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. (Quote by - Rem Koolhaas)

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. (Quote by - William James)

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)

To come to India and draw 1-1 with such a formidable side was a great effort for our lads. (Quote by - Andrew Flintoff)

Much effort, much prosperity. (Quote by - Euripides)

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. (Quote by - Chuck Jones )

Fame is a constant effort. (Quote by - Jules Renard)

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. (Quote by - Ernest Thompson Seton)

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. (Quote by - Naomi Campbell)

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire )

I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. (Quote by - Fred Saberhagen)

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. (Quote by - Clive James)

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. (Quote by - Colin Powell)

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

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