Spare no effort to suppress selfishness, unless that effort would entail sorrow.
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope – an impotence, in short and to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all...
John Fowles
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.
Albert Bandura
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
Peace Pilgrim
Jackson, Thomas Stonewall
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