Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 24

I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when that idea of resilience is appropriated to justify discrimination, e.g., \
I have a lot of love for the resilience personified in so many achievements made by Americans. I feel not American when that idea of resilience is appropriated to justify discrimination, e.g., "Make America Great Again.
 Tavi Gevinson
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
 Ahmed H. Zewail
I've lived in many things - boats, caravans, and buses. I've been homeless, I've had no money: everything. But I believe in magic, and having a vision. The tough times made me a warrior. I work hard.
 Neon Hitch
In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom
 Mary Ritter Beard
Means are more important than ends in the civilized struggle for ideas. Our dreams may be the loveliest on earth, but if we wade through blood and terror to achieve them, we will arrive to find ourselves destroyed. Don't kill.
 Yuri Orlov
But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
 Adam Schiff
If you believe, work hard, and smile there's nothing you can't accomplish.
 Mike Posner
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
 Edmund Hillary
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.
 Peter Ackroyd
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.
One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.
 Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle.
 Tim Harford
No individual or people can achieve anything without industry suffering, and sacrifice.
 Fatima Jinnah
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.
 Millicent Fenwick
Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
 Goswami Kriyananda
In our generation there is no agreed-upon framework. All issues are up for grabs. Morality no longer has any broad-based theology upon which to rest its case. We are no longer a 'Christian nation,' not even a 'Judeo-Christian culture.'
 F. LaGard Smith
The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.
 Mohamed ElBaradei
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
 Ezra Pound
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!
GRIT is Guts, Resilience, Industriousness and Tenacity. GRIT is the ability to focus, stay determined, stay optimistic in the face of a challenge, and simply work harder than the next guy or gal.
 Linda Kaplan Thaler