Effort Quotes
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
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.Barbara Tobe
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
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
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
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...Robert J. Collie
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
Continuous effort - - Not strength or intelligence - - Is the key to unlocking our potential.Black Elk
Beyond every effort put first, lies an undiscovered opportunity.Cassia Lewis
Constant and determined effort breaks down all resistence and sweeps away all obstacles.Claude M Bristol
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
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
In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over - Organized generation of youngsters in our history.Eda J. Le Shan
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
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
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.Samuel Johnson
A fanatic is someone who redoubles his efforts when he has forgotten his aim.Chuck Jones
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.Og Mandino
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 essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
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".
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
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
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 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
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.Al Jaffee
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
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
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
