Effort Quotes · Page 39

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

— Morgan Freeman

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician.

— P. J. O'Rourke

No single institution or effort can effectively create solutions for societal problems.

— Rohini Nilekani

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

— A. A. Milne

We can either make ourselves miserable or we can make ourselves strong - the amount of work is the same.

— Anonymous

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

— Pierre de Coubertin

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

— Albert Schweitzer

I am inclined towards offbeat films. I feel it's about testing your abilities - doing stuff I need effort to do.

— Regina Cassandra

Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the…

— Leon Trotsky

Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge…

— John Dewey

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it…

— Anonymous

So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you…

— George S. Patton

I do not make an effort to promote myself as a brand. I just focus on making the right choices that feel…

— Kirti Kulhari

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate…

— Joseph J. Romm

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It…

— Joe Biden

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The whole world's effort of working hard goes to waste. Just as the bull [that turns the wheels on the oil mill]…

— Dada Bhagwan

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…

— Stanley Kunitz

Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live…

— Alexis Carrel

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural…

— Tom Vilsack

One of the ways of stopping science would be only to do experiments in the region where you know the law. But…

— Richard P. Feynman

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence, and persistence. Those who work don't talk, and those who talk…

— Les Brown

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

— Ian Bogost

In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs.

— Theodore Kaczynski

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

— Neal Shusterman

I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

— Robert Rinder

Don’t waste talent. No matter what you do, don’t waste talent.

— Ray Lewis

I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.

— Charlize Theron

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

— Saint Augustine

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

— William Graham Sumner

You may share the labors of the great, but you will not share the spoil.

— Aesop

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

— Samuel Johnson

“Grasp on to the beautiful part, Slick.” “I’ll make an effort to do that, Jake.”

— Kristen Ashley

“It was a marvelous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her”

— Emily Brontë

“Improving the human condition takes little effort; destroying it takes maximum force.”

— T.F. Hodge

Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

— Honore de Balzac

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

— Michael Ian Black