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"...what thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most."	Matthew Arnold
"A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life -- provided he go his own way. He need not and should not think of making a good living, but rather of creating a good life for himself. To live one's own life is still the best way of life, always was, and always will be."	Henry Miller
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."	Herm Albright
"All the so-called "secrets of success" will not work unless you do."	Author Unknown
"As long as Nazi violence was unleashed only, or mainly, against the Jews, the rest of the world looked on passively and even treaties and agreements were made with the patently criminal government of the Third Reich.... The doors of Palestine were closed to Jewish immigrants, and no country could be found that would admit those forsaken people. They were left to perish like their brothers and sisters in the occupied countries. We shall never forget the heroic efforts of the small countries, of the Scandinavian, the Dutch, the Swiss nations, and of individuals in the occupied part of Europe who did all in their power to protect Jewish lives."	Albert Einstein
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'"	Clare Boothe Luce
"Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity."	Cassia Lewis
"Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential."	Black Elk
"Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit."	Felix Adler
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."	Will Rogers
"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Euripides
"God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose."	Author Unknown
"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life."	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."	Friedrich Nietzsche
"Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."	Claude M. Bristol
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Pierre Corneille
"Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny."	Quentin Crisp
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."	Erich Fromm
"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."	Orison Swett Marden
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Abraham Lincoln	Albert Einstein	Alexander Hamilton
Al Jaffee	Author Unknown	Black Elk
Cassia Lewis	Charlotte Bronte	Clare Boothe Luce
Claude M. Bristol	Daisaku Ikeda	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Erich Fromm	Euripides	Felix Adler
Friedrich Nietzsche	Hannah Arendt	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Miller	Herm Albright	Heroditus
James Lane Allen	John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Martin Fischer
Matthew Arnold	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	Og Mandino
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Orison Swett Marden	Paul Auster
Pierre Corneille	Quentin Crisp	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Robert J. Collier	Roger Bannister	Siddha Nagarjuna
Sri da Avabhas	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Will Rogers
W. J. Cameron	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett