Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 165

I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow; And then I must scrub and bake and sweep Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep; And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

William Butler Yeats

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

Henry Sy

Good things come to those who initiate.

Susan RoAne

As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.

Larry Winget

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I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.

Robert Genn

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Agatha Christie

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

Chris Witty

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

David Letterman

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Man-made global warming was a potential serious threat, and NASA wanted Congress to fund new satellites to study the problem. It was a team effort to get that accomplished.

Roy Spencer

Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

Matt Biondi

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

Robert Payne

All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.

Working together precedes winning together...collaboration is multiplication.

John C. Maxwell

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

Norman Vincent Peale

I left Gorbachev's office thinking that everything about him was outsized: his achievements, his mistakes, and, now, his vanity and bitterness.

David Remnick

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In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

Piet Mondrian

You learn so much from taking chances, whether they work out or not. Either way, you can grow from the experience and become stronger and smarter.

John Legend