Effort Quotes
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.Vince Lombardi
Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.Vince Lombardi
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, Introduction
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.Theodore Roosevelt
Any effort that has self - Glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.Robert M. Pirsig
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
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
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
Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.Charlotte Bronte
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
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.Herm Albright
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
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
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
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Clu
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
Happiness is in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin Roosevelt
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.H. L. Mencken
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
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
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
The last dejected effort often becomes the winning stroke.W. J. Cameron
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
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
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.James Allen
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.Alexis Carrel
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.Roger Banniste
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
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.John Ruskin
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
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
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.Orison Swett Marden
