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Quotes About Effort

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
~ Jesse Owens
We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
~ Jesse Owens
A third worker boasted of walking 547 miles in ten weeks of work. He was later topped by another, who posted a Fitbit log showing 820 miles in twelve-and-a-half weeks.
~ Jessica Bruder
Nothing great ever comes easy.
~ Jessica Edobor
One man's crappy software is another man's full time job.
~ Jessica Gaston
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
~ Jessica Savitch
For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.
~ Jessica Savitch
If you don't make mistakes, you're not really trying
~ Jessica Scott Kerrin
There's enough pressure keeping this perfect little creature alive. Just do the best you can, whatever your best is.
~ Jessica Simpson
God explains to Jonah that the essence of love is to "labor" for something and "to make something grow," that love and labor are inseparable. One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.
~ Erich Fromm
Man's nature, his passions, and anxieties are a cultural product; as a matter of fact, man himself is the most important creation and achievement of the continuous human effort, the record of which we call history.
~ Erich Fromm
One loves that for which one labors, and one labors for that which one loves.
~ Erich Fromm
almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to
~ Erich Fromm
The problem of education hinges on this point. If parents were more developed themselves and rested in their own center, the opposition between authoritarian and laissez-faire education would hardly exist. Needing this being-authority, the child reacts to it with great eagerness; on the other hand, the child rebels against pressure or neglect by people who show by their own behavior that they themselves have not made the effort they expect from the growing child.)
~ Erich Fromm
Tutku insan?n, amaçlar?na ulaÅŸma çabas? gösterme yeteneÄŸidir.
~ Erich Fromm
a dificuldade da tarefa não deve ser razão para que nos abstenhamos de tentar conhecer-lhe os óbices, assim como as condições de sua realização
~ Erich Fromm
Der Mensch soll lernen, nur die Ochsen büffeln
~ Erich Kastner
Es gibt nichts Gutes außer: Man tut es. There is nothing good unless you do it.
~ Erich Kastner
ÄŒovek je u namerama uvek veliki, ali ne i u ostvarivanju.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He was loyal, a believer in dignity, honor, and effort.
~ Erik Larson
The Admiralty was well aware the Lusitania would soon traverse these same waters but made no effort to provide specifics of the night's events directly to Captain Turner.
~ Erik Larson
One line stood out with particular clarity: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
~ Erik Larson
All I hope is that it is not too late... I am very much afraid that it is. But we can only do our best, and give the rest of what we have - whatever there may be left to us.
~ Erik Larson
Spade loved money in the way only someone who grew up poor could. He understood its feckless ways and spent it joyfully. It was all a big goof to him and the more he spent the harder he had to work, which was how he liked it.
~ Erika Schickel