“ You do not succeed because you do not know what you want, but because you don't want it intensely enough. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
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“ Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! ”
- Paul J. Meyer- Copy
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“ There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
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“ Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. ”
- B. C. Forbes- Copy
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“ We should earnestly desire but few things if we clearly knew what desired. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life. ”
- J.C. Ryle- Copy
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“ We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation. ”
- Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer- Copy
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“ Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a helping hand. ”
- Aeschylus- Copy
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“ O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed? ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellow men, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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“ Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but set his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment. ”
- Herman J. Randall- Copy
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“ All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ”
- Anna Jameson- Copy
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“ Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all. ”
- Allan K. Chalmers- Copy
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“ When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power. ”
- Grenville Kleiser- Copy
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“ Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it. ”
- Walter Savage Landor- Copy
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“ I earnestly wish them all imaginable success; in the first place that they may not, by the unseasonable obscurity of a cloudy sky, be deprived of this most desirable sight; and then, that having ascertained with more exactness the magnitudes of the planetary orbits, it may redound to their eternal fame and glory. ”
- Edmond Halley- Copy
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“ Many times a day I realize how much my own inner and outer life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. ”
- John Keats- Copy
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“ Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them… To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised. ”
- Maltbie D. Babcock- Copy
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“ God alone fully understands what each one of us needs; we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things, even though we plead ever so earnestly for them. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
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