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My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men. -- Charles M. Schwab
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. -- Alvin Ailey
I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game. -- Joe Namath
In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss. -- Edward Bennett Williams
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. -- Goldwin Smith
Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life. -- Cesar Millan
I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end. -- David Walliams
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be. -- Hugh Dillon
Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference. -- Orlando Bloom
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. -- Peter McWilliams
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts. -- Roger Staubach
I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going. -- Anthony Hopkins
Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. -- Robert Trout
If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in. -- Alonzo Mourning
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -- Samuel Johnson
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. -- Patricia Polacco
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. -- Erich Fromm
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. -- Plato
Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life. -- Florence Kelley
I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times. -- Jeremy Sisto
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. -- James A. Baldwin
The reward of eternal life requires effort. -- Thomas S. Monson
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. -- Karl Kraus
All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. -- Olen Steinhauer
Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it. -- John C. Maxwell
The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure. -- Francis of Assisi
Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them. -- Alan Watts
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. -- Gene Simmons
There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort. -- Mark Cuban
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life -- William Ellery Channing
Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort. -- Ai Weiwei
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. -- George Eliot
Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul. -- Sri Chinmoy
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. -- Henry James
I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. -- Nancy Friday
It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally. -- Stuart Wilde
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.... -- Walter Inglis Anderson
It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes. -- Jo Brand
Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy. -- Jessica Scorpio
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. -- W. G. Grace
Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort. -- Finn Jones
The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. -- Fred Pierce Corson
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. -- Helen Keller
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. -- Rose Wilder Lane
Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. -- Lester Levenson
When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. -- Barbara Tuchman
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. -- David O. McKay
If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. -- Charlie Trotter
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously. -- Maria Montessori
Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think. -- Dagobert D. Runes
The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. -- Salvador Dali
Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be. -- James Van Praagh
I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever. -- Chelsea Handler
Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural. -- Anuj
Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead. -- Roderick E. Stevens
The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss... -- Huldrych Zwingli
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. -- Vincent Van Gogh
You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want. -- Kim Kardashian
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. -- Nancy Mitford
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me. -- Dan Chaon
The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. -- Swami Vivekananda
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. -- A.J. Ayer
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The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. -- Albert Camus
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random. -- Mark Cuban
I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life. -- Emmet Fox
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. -- Napoleon Hill
The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason. -- Steven Redhead
The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good. -- David Byrne
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you. -- Jack LaLanne
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. -- Ayn Rand
As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death. -- Craig Briggs
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself -- Sadhu Sundar Singh
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. -- Aristotle
The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action. -- Wallace D. Wattles
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle. -- Robert Anthony
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. -- Charles Dickens
Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. -- Tammy Bruce
If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own. -- Ted Harts
Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life. -- Urijah Faber
My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive. -- Albert Einstein
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. -- Ben Stein
Life turns out to be the best for those who give their best effort whatever they do and enjoy the abundance of life with love and gratitude. -- Debasish Mridha
Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings -- Rumi
If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay. -- Michael Cera
I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it. -- John Caudwell
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. -- Henry Rollins
I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much -- Chet Baker
The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort. -- Mooji
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. -- Stephen Fry
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price. -- Oriana Fallaci
I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort. -- Shakira
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. -- Ann Voskamp
We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort. -- Piero Ferrucci
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves. -- Tullian Tchividjian

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