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"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
"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
"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment. Full effort is full victory."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."	Alexander Hamilton
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."	Heroditus
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
"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
"[Book dedication:] To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible."	Al Jaffee
"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
"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity."	Cassia Lewis
"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
"The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"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
"Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."	Og Mandino
"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
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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
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