Effort Quotes
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
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
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
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
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
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
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
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
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
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated.Alexander Osborn
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
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
If our actions stem from honesty, kindness, caring, and vision, then no matter what the result of our efforts, we have added something of value to our souls and to the world.Joan Boysenko, Pocketful of Miracles
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
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.Wilson Mizne
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
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
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
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
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
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.A. A. Milne
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
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
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.Unknown
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.Barbara Tobe
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
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
