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Quotes About Effort

By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
~ Stephen Covey
In business, three things are necessary: knowledge, temper, and time.
~ Owen Felltham
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
~ John Calvin
Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
~ Charles Spurgeon
It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can teach.
~ Pere La Combe
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
~ Jane Addams
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.
~ Ernest Thompson Seton
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
~ Bayard Rustin
We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.
~ Hu Jintao
You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best
~ Demian Maia
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
~ Norman Schwarzkopf
We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.
~ Aristotle
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
~ Studs Terkel
Success is the peace of mind that comes when you know you have given everything you have to give to the opportunities that life has presented you.
~ Don Shula
Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.
~ Sparky Anderson
Do the best you can do and wait the results in peace.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is tired of seeing the perpetuation of violence and terrorism, but the effort to create a real peace needs to go hand in hand with the struggle to restore justice.
~ Mohammad Khatami
Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance
~ Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.
~ Marianne Williamson
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.
~ Edward Young