#effort

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#because #crimes #culture #effort #genocide

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#balance #considerations #day #derives #die

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#effort #habitual #intensive #physical #voluntary

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind. ↗

— George Crabbe

#calls #courage #effort #experience #gains

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#commentaries #could #deleted #director #doing

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#action #effort #energetic #exercise #force

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too. Blend them together for one potent brew; The magical spell to your dreams coming true. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #effort #faith #goals #hope

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#attributes #combine #efforts #encouraging #enthusiasm

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. ↗

— Denzel Washington

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