Effort Quotes
Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.Theodore Roosevelt
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
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
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not attempted to do. - From Democracy in America.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.Anon.
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
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
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
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
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
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
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
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
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
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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 hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.Baudjuin
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
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.James Allen
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
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
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
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.Dr. Maxwell Maltz
