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Letter "E" » efforts
«One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.»
Author: George Sand
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
degree, denial, efforts, ingredients, self-denial, tastes
«I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.»
Author: John D. Rockefeller
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
earn, efforts, My own, off, of my own
«I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.»
Author: Ken Jenkins
| About:
Science,
Success
| Keywords:
efforts, enjoyed, extraordinary, limited, namely, narrow, physical science, realm
«One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.»
Author: Maxwell Maltz
| Keywords:
center, circumference, directed, efforts, habits, heretofore, nearly, personality, seemed, so to speak, The Center, the self, way of life
«Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.»
Author: Horace Mann
| Keywords:
apple, apple orchard, canker, cankers, corrupt, efforts, exclude, force of law, on paper, orchard, orchards, public property, sign in, The Force, worms
«Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Heart,
Science,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
allies, below, efforts, fit, imaginary, invent, look to, supports
«Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
arguments, convinced, efforts, seriousness, sincerity
«Perhaps, if I am very lucky, the feeble efforts of my lifetime will someday be noticed, and maybe, in some small way, they will be acknowledged as the greatest works of genius ever created by Man»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
acknowledged, acknowledges, efforts, feeble, feebler, feeblest, lifetime, lucky, maybe, noticed, someday
«I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.»
«Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.»
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