Effort Quotes
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
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.Jim Rohn
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it.Wilson Mizne
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
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
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
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
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
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
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.Barbara Tobe
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
Quality is never an accident it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.Peter McWilliams
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
Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.Cassia Lewis
Success is dependent on effort.Sophocles
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
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
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.Euripides
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
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
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.Michael Winner, British film directo
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
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
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 not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
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
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
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
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 evil dooms us hopelessly, except the evil we love, and desire to continue in and make no effort to escape from.George Eliot, internet
