#effort

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. ↗

— Sarah Polley

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And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar. ↗

— Bob Richards

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Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. ↗