Effort Quotes
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
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
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
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.Orison Swett Marden
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.Hellen Kelle
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
Success is dependent on effort.Sophocles
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
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.William A. Foste
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".
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
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
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
No evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.George Eliot, internet
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - - An impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.John Fowles, The Magus
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.A. A. Milne
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - - Nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.Richard Milhous Nixon
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.Barbara Tobe
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
Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it.Charles Babbage
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.Unknown
Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
Continuous effort is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk, Native American
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.Anne Rice
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
