Effort Quotes
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
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.Wilson Mizne
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.Felix Adle
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
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
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
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
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
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
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
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
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.Dr. Thomas Dooley
The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.Anna Garlin Spence
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
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
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
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
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
Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history.Ronald Reagan
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
Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.Author Unknown
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
Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.Matthew Arnold
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
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
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
