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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Browse Quotations about Effort

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
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.
champions know there are no shortcuts to the top. They climb the mountain one step at a time. they have no use for helicopters!
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.


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