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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. -- Maximilien Robespierre
You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. -- Ashton Kutcher
With great effort comes great gratification. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Great things only come with great effort. -- Art Briles
Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure. -- Jerzy Kukuczka
The individual great spirit and great efforts create a great team. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort. -- Dizzy Dean
Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College -- Tony-Paul de Vissage
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender. -- Bill Johnson
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. -- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right. -- Ole Hallesby
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
After the hockey stick, Sardara Singh scores with the broom! A great effort by him towards a Swachh Bharat. -- Narendra Modi
Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think. -- Dagobert D. Runes
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes. -- Geneen Roth
In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters. -- Judy Woodruff
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. -- Wallace Stegner
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really. -- Dalai Lama
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Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is not an accomplishment but merely a happening. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. -- Peter Ackroyd
Emeritus John Farrington said, "Sometimes God's creation does not yield to scientific research without great effort and our results are not always what we would like or predicted. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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
It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain. -- Taiichi Ohno
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged. -- Henry Rollins
I'm making a great effort because sometimes life is not enjoyable. Sometimes it's painful and sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's agonizing even, so I think once you get around those humps: strive for pleasure and peace. -- Morgan Freeman
If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection. -- Francois Fenelon
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. -- Fredrik Bajer
Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs. -- Samael Aun Weor
Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure. -- Jared Diamond
One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue. -- Dalai Lama
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome. -- K.W. Jeter
First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed. -- Hadewijch
The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law. -- George Edward Woodberry
You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never. -- Richelle Mead
I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a house for the Stratford man, to make it so difficult for us to prove that it was Francis Bacon, because it is very difficult to prove. -- Mark Rylance
The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance. -- Alfred North Whitehead
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. -- Virchand Gandhi
Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success. -- Yiyun Li
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One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over. -- Tom Hanks
I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic. So it can be something as simple as, like, if you're someone who doesn't cook, you can make a meal. -- Ashton Kutcher
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. -- Orison Swett Marden
I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best. -- Tom Lehman
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in order for all Christians to transform themselves into 'witnesses,' ready and able to shoulder the commitment of testifying - always and to everyone - to the hope that animates them. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here. -- Sylvia Earle
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why people look so tired, because misery is really hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because they are doing something against nature. -- Rajneesh
There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th. -- Tom Lehman
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great effort, that could at first only be understood by men capable of profound thought, are soon developed and proved by methods that are not beyond the reach of common intelligence. The strength and the limits of man -- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
I tell the players that they can't relive any day in their lives and that they can't relive the minutes of a game, so they should make a great effort, a Mount Everest type effort, to live up to their potential. Success is a communal type thing, and if we win, then everyone can be considered successful and we can move uptown together. -- Al McGuire
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. -- Pat Riley
You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness. -- Tom Rath
I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts. -- Joseph Haydn
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough. -- Sextus Propertius
No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. -- Frederick William Robertson
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. -- John Ruskin
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. -- George Bernard Shaw
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. -- Orison Swett Marden
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years. -- Leland Stanford
Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer. -- Jason Mraz
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?' -- Philip Green
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. -- Eleanor Catton
An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold. -- Mary Elizabeth Lease
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden
The great man is always the man of mighty effort. -- Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary. -- Amy Bloom
The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort. -- Duffy Daugherty
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life -- William Ellery Channing
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. -- Willa Cather
Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort. -- Brian Tracy
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort. -- Calvin Coolidge
Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown. -- Idries Shah
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Great time is for those who made effort. Better time is for those who made gain. -- Angelo Quiamco
The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. -- Antonio Gaudi
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort. -- George Bernard Shaw
Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity. -- Pope John Paul II
Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort. -- Earl Nightingale
You don't need great skill to be a tough rebounder; being a rebounder is all about effort, determination, and physicality -- Michael Malone
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. -- Swami Vivekananda
Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. -- Gilbert Highet
Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. -- James E. Faust
Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. -- Chinonye J. Chidolue
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one? -- Philip Green
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort. -- Robert Greene
Jesus became a God and reached His great state of under-standing through consistent effort and continuous obedience to all the Gospel truths and universal laws. -- Milton R. Hunter
Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. -- Nigella Lawson
In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort. -- Brenda Strong
That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite. -- Rachel Bloom
You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesnâ??t require much effort. -- Dimitar Berbatov
There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well. -- Sam Altman
If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. -- Carlos Castaneda
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. -- Peter Lynch
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art. -- Wassily Kandinsky
It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time -- Ken Blackwell
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual. -- Charles M. Schwab
I love putting things together. I love putting together a team and making stuff with people. It's great, that's what's cool about movies it's such a collaborative effort. -- Mark Webber
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. -- T. S. Eliot
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. -- Eduard Hanslick
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. -- Ralph Adams Cram
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art." -- Ralph Adams Cram
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. -- Horace

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