Effort Quotes

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to...

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have...

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally d...

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to d...

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the eff...

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the discipl...

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative the...

…having once seen him put forth his strength in battle, methinks I could know him again among a thou...

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The wast...

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any ot...

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth ...

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated ef...

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it ...

There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my...

While I may not agree with all of President Obama's energy policies, I strongly supported his succes...

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of perso...

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then f...

Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] r...

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an ...

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.

Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it ...

With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has to m...

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In...

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insin...

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you lo...

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physic...

There is no question that the Islamic State will be defeated in Mosul the real question is what come...

Denial couldn't be maintained.

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we ta...

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed...

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. ...

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matte...

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the...

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. ...

Much effort, much prosperity.

I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of th...

Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to ma...

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the wither...

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irr...

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to cal...

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ens...

A well-constituted human being, a ‘happy one’, must perform certain actions and instinctively shrink...

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas o...

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience an...

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a w...

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You h...

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in t...

What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one...

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own spa...

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peace...

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

In the Middle Ages there was no salvation outside the Church, and the theologians had a hard time ex...

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be ...

You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, a...

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than m...

There's no such thing as effortless beauty--you should know that.There's no effort which is not beau...

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You canno...

...the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present t...

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of r...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch...

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Indepen...

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw...

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather...

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejecti...

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved thro...

Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You c...

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself ...

Sometimes I had to spend a whole day mixing a boiling mass with a heavy iron rod nearly as large as ...

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious se...

What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abu...

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grand...

My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were ...

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the...

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Education comes from within you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State B...

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is ...

In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not j...

You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This ...