Effort Quotes
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 mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
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
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
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
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.John Martin Fische
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
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.Joseph Conrad
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
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
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 essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
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
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
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
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
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.Unknown
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
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
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.Claude M Bristol
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.Enrique Jardiel Poncela
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
