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Efforts Quotes

Things do not get better by being let alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with shattering detonation.


Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.


We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing; but let us not forget for a moment the toil and efforts that lie ahead. Japan, with all her treachery and greed, remains unsubdued. The injury she has inflicted on Great Britain, the United States, and other countries, and her detestable cruelties, call for justice and retribution.We must now devote all our strength and resources to the completion of our task, both at home and abroad. Advance, Britannia! Long live the cause of freedom! God save the King.


Success always demands a greater effort.


You can't just play the way The Grateful Dead plays without working at it. It's not something that is easy or just happened to us. There was a long, slow process that brought that into being.


I love looking out at 27 semis and being like, every single one of those semi trucks is there to put together my stage.


You can make something of your life. It just depends on your drive.


No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.


Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.


It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.


Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness.


But Natural Selection, as we shall hereafter see, is a power incessantly ready for action, and is immeasurably superior to man's feeble efforts, as the works of Nature are to those of Art.


Ability to think, like the violin or piano, requires daily practice.


Imagination means nothing without doing.


Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.


After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.


To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.


You must make the effort yourself. The Masters only point the way.


God the Almighty has made our nation. By defending its existence we are defending His work...Therefore, it is all the more necessary on this twelfth anniversary of the rise to power to strengthen the heart more than ever before and to steel ourselves in the holy determination to wield the sword, no-matter where and under what circumstances, until final victory crowns our efforts.


Nothing can come of nothing.