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"Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand."
"Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged."
"The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment."
"The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner."
"Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements."
"Where there is no difficulty there is no praise."
"The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong."
"Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame"
"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."
"I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone."
"There is no effort without error or shortcoming."
"Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules."
"The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar."
"Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful."
"Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over"
"I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible."
"Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again."
"There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts."
"Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages to outweigh all other motives, because the effort it demands of the mind is so very much less. Nothing is so clear and so simple as a row of figures."
"The seers of ancient India had, in their experiments and efforts at spiritual training and the conquest of the body, perfected a discovery which in its importance to the future of human knowledge dwarfs the divinations of Newton and Galileo , even the discovery of the inductive and experimental method in Science was not more momentous."
