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“We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“The Church expects that each of us carry a share of the burden of leadership. There is no paid clergy. The work is done because of a love of the cause. And as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.”

People Done Given Grows Causes Church Effort Sacrifice Share Capacity Paid Burden Clergy

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.”

People Given Grows Effort Sacrifice Capacity

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Making the effort to improve as a human being is what Coach Lombardi was all about. He was able to see the gap between where we were and what we could become-both as football players and as people. And he felt it was his God-given responsibility to close that gap.”

People Humans Able Given Felt Human Beings Effort Responsibility Player Football Coaches Gaps Football Player Lombardi

Author:Jerry Kramer

“If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago.”

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Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“All organizations are merely conceptual embodiments of a very old, very basic idea - the idea of community. They can be no more or less than the sum of the beliefs of the people drawn to them; of their character, judgements, acts and efforts.”

People Ideas Character Belief Community Effort Organization Judgement Embodiment

Author:Dee Hock

“The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by the height to which they ascend above the level of their age and country; and the same stature, which in a people of giants would pass unnoticed, must appear conspicuous in a race of pygmies.”

People Real Country Age Levels Effort Race Virtue Genius Active Height Giants Stature Unnoticed Elevation

Book:THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

Source: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages

“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.”

People Ifs Doe Community Effort Produce Benefits Creating Trade Property Rewards Mutual Free Market Incentives Private Property Surplus Mutual Benefit

Author:John Stossel

“Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.”

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Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.”

People Humans Natural Effort Teaching Training Adults Lazy Clash Wiring

Author:B. J. Fogg

“Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.”

People Enjoy Effort Democracy Trouble Contrary Treasure

Book:Bureaucracy: The Economist

Source: Bureaucracy: The Economist

“Failure to handle psychological denial is a common way for people to go broke: you have made an enormous commitment to something. You have poured effort and money in. And the more you put in, the more that the whole consistency principle makes you think, "Now it has to work. If I put in just a little more, then it will work."”

People Thinking Way Made Whole Common Effort Principles Commitment Enormous Handle Psychological Broke Denial Consistency Make You Think

Author:Charlie Munger

“People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.”

People Seems Effort Release Efficient Minimum Maximum

Book:The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

“Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. Instinct is a lifesaver for sharks and entrepreneurs alike. Most people can recall times they ignored their gut only to regret it later. Learning to actually listen to your instinct is a great form of self-preservation. It's both incredibly easy and tough at the same time, but worth the effort to master.”

People Self Form Easy Effort Masters Regret Tough Entrepreneur Instinct Dare All Time Guts Recalls Ignored Underestimate Preservation Sharks Self Preservation

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.”

People Ifs Community Results Effort Wise Excellent Lifelong

Author:Aristotle

“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”

People Made War Jobs Courses Winning Sides Effort Existence Cold Comfortable West East Germany Cold War West Germany

Author:Stefan Heym

“A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard”

People Hard Games Winning Effort One Thing Losing Beats Worried Winning And Losing

Author:John Calipari

“I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.”

People Thinking Knows Needs States Together America Effort Bridges Lots Of Money Infrastructure Back Together Pennsylvania Knitting Effort And Time

Author:Chris Matthews

“Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.”

People Years Looks Made Different Character Shows Able Lasts Causes Effort Color Range Last Year Artistry Guessing Different Characters

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.”

People Littles Light Actors Process Effort Musician Cameras Working With Others

Author:John Cusack

“Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.”

People Important America Young Effort Starting What's Important Catalyst

Author:Andrew Shue

“I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.”

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Author:Benjamin Carson

“When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.”

People Stories Able Film Interesting Effort Morning Groups Stage Picks Wake Up Painter Waking Group Effort

Author:Sean Penn

“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and assemble the cast and crew. As a group and as a family, we're creating this world.”

People World Different Shows Running Effort Groups This World Creating Casts Intense Zero Surprising Crew Runners Different Experiences Ground Zero Surprising Things

Author:Veena Sud

“And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit.”

People Ifs Way May Soul Ends Feelings Dream Moving Effort Flower Bears Garden Eternity Embrace Fruit Deeds Conclusion Manage Strings Infirmity Splendour Embrace Life Great Garden

Book:Diaries of a Young Poet

Source: Diaries of a Young Poet

“The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.”

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”

“Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.”

People Years Has Beens Effort Steps Poverty Overcoming Misery Block Bitter Haitian

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The actual fund is called "THE JIMMY FUND" and THE REDSOX FOUNDATION IN BOSTON has gotten involved and people all over New England are very supportive of this effort. The Jimmy Fund is an official charity of the Boston Red Sox and my song "Down at Fenway Park" is often played at Fenway and if you buy the C.D. a portion of the proceeds go to the Jimmy Fund via the Red Sox Foundation.”

People Ifs Song Effort Involved Red England Foundation Charity Officials Parks Fund Portions Supportive Boston Jimmy New England Boston Red Sox Fenway Park

Author:Freddy Cannon

“For radical white writers wishing to forge interracial movements of poor and working people, whiteness has also long been a problem, with Alexander Saxton and Ted Allen making especially full efforts to understand whiteness in order to disillusion whites unable to see past the value of their own skins.”

People Long Problem Past Values Order Wish White Poor Effort Movement Skins Radical Whiteness Disillusion

Author:David Roediger

“Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena.”