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"The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses."	John Martin Fischer
"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe."	Daisaku Ikeda
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."	Helen Adams Keller
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."	Orison Swett Marden
"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
"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
"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind."	Author Unknown
"Some people dream of success... while others wake up and work hard at it."	Author Unknown
"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
"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
"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
"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."	Abraham Lincoln
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."	Roger Bannister
"Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding."	Paul Auster
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."	Claude M. Bristol
"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it."	Euripides
"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?"	Erich Fromm
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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