Effort Quotes
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
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
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
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
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.Napoleon Hill
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
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
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.Claude M Bristol
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
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
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".
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
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
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
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
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
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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 man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
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
Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.Gloria Pitze
Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.Cassia Lewis
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.Herodotus
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
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
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 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
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.Unknown
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
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
