Effort Quotes
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.Oliver Wendell Holmes
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.A. A. Milne
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
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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 is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
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
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.Pierre Corneille
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low - Hanging apple for his efforts.R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
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
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
Individual commitment to a group effort - That is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States
I do beseech you to direct your efforts more to preparing youth for the path and less to preparing the path for the youth.Ben Lindsey
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
First of all, let me assert my firm belief that 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
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
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
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.Steven Weinberg
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
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.Andre Bernard Buruch
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
