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Effort Quotes

"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something"

"The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic—the man who actually does the work even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice."

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius"

"It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot"

"When a person’s entire being is stretched in the effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile, it is impossible for the ordinary problems of life to seem important"

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing"

"I think you still have to do things even if they don’t have any point."

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value"

"A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch."

"I don't think people understand how much work goes into making somebody who looks like it's effortless."

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius."

"I saw you come in and I wanted you to know that it doesn’t matter how hard you work, that I’m willing to work harder than you."

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

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