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Effort
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Franz Kafka
From a certain point on, there is no more turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Haruki Murakami
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry
The one thing that matters is the effort
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Jos� Ortega y Gasset
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt
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Epictetus
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort
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Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going
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Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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