Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make."
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Best Effort
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."
Denis Waitley
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."
Baba Hari Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself."
Jeremy Lin
Professional Basketball Player
"I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough faith to trust in his grace and to trust in his sovereign and perfect plan. I had to submit my will, my desires, my dreams — give it all up to God and say, “Look, I am going to give my best effort, go on the court and play every day for you, and I'm going to let you take care of the rest."
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"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort."
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"Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside"
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"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying."
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"Some times your best effort just isn't good enough."
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"I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience."
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"I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results."
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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."
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"The one thing that matters is the effort."
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"Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty."
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"In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there."
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"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence."
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"The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence."
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"If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best."
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"Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it."
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"I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about."
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"Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life."
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"You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter."
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"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await."
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"But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more."
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"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well."
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