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Effort
«I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.»
Author: Arnold Palmer
(Golfer)
| About:
Chance,
Effort
| Keywords:
Against All Odds, Against Me, at odds, entirely, even chance, felt, odds, quit, seemed, total
«It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.»
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
| About:
Dreams,
Effort,
Evil,
Food,
Fulfilment,
Goodness,
Health,
Hunger,
Illness,
Rest,
Wishes
| Keywords:
exertion, health food, sickness, to be filled
«If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.»
Author: Mike Schmidt
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball,
Effort
| Keywords:
dirt, equate, equated, measured, physically, put in, succeeding, uniform, uniforms
«In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves»
Author: Ruth Goode
| About:
Effort,
Questioning,
Solution
| Keywords:
arrive at, comforting, questioners
«I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Effort,
Joy,
Trying,
Work
| Keywords:
joyousness, labors, lets, springtime, suspect, wished
«In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result»
«I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ?brief candle? to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ambition,
Death,
Effort,
Satisfaction,
Work