Effort Quotes
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.A. A. Milne
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.Emma Goldman
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?Elbert Hubbard
On that day let us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that all their efforts shall not have been in vain.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.Philip Dormer Chesterfield
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - This is happiness, this is success.Orison Swett Marden
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.Proverbs 47 - 8
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.Zig Zigla
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.Unknown
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
He was a genius - That is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business".
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.J. W. Alexande
To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.David Viscott
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.Stephen Leacock
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.Wilson Mizne
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.Peter McWilliams
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.Sydney Smith
