Efforts Quotes

Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

— Mr. Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?
— Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

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All the sweat and boring effort that goes into creating what looks easy and instant.

Nothing else gets your attention. While the inspiration comes, you keep going.

To get what you want, you put up with something, make an effort, learn a skill, and inspire yourself.

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Boku dake ga Inai Machi

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.

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Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

What other men can do, we can do.

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Jack London

Smoke Bellew

Christopher Smoke Bellew

Willpower

Comparison

If you want things to be different, you got to do that, make that happen yourself.

No one can stop a ticking clock, the great ones always find a way to slow it down.

Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we can control. Attitude, effort, focus — these are the things we can control.

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Tim Tebow

Control

It is the first step that costs.

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English proverbs and sayings

Step

Meaningful Quotes

— They are already starting to panic.
— Of course they are. They think that someone is taking their money. All of those nickel and dimes they saved. Useful idiots, as Lyman would say.

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