Effort Quotes · Page 42

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

— Ian Bogost

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

— Kristen Ashley

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

— T.F. Hodge

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

— Emily Brontë

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

— William Graham Sumner

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Aesop

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was…

— Judy Blume

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant…

— Og Mandino

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring…

— James E. Faust

When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was…

— Judith Martin

We have to focus on what we can do. It has to be about experience; it has to be about unique product.…

— Mindy Grossman

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the…

— Naveen Jain

The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries…

— Robert Menzies

Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted…

— Justin Menkes

Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology…

— Millicent Fenwick

What do the few existing mystics still do? -- They more or less mold the raw chaos of already existing religion. But…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no…

— Anonymous

There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an…

— Henry Miller

God picks you up. You don't pick yourself up. You're the one who knocked you down or even if somebody else knocked…

— Marianne Williamson

“May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.”

— Laura Teresa Marquez

“There's nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (210) - Bud Selig "Effort is Everything”

— Denzel Washington

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

— Bruce Lee

“Let us leave no effort. Let us give it our all. We will chase our dream like mad men and mad women.”

— Avijeet Das

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

— Nora Roberts

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

— Om Puri

Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

— Napoleon Hill

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

— Mark Cuban

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

— Henry David Thoreau

You will never be in first place with a WINNER if you always giving a second place effort

— M Walder

“Mom taught me that the real outcome rested in the fact that we were daring enough to attempt an outcome.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

— Patanjali

“An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above.”

— Lydia M. Child

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

— Jim George

Universal brotherhood is not even a beautiful dream. Antagonism is essential to man's greatest efforts.

— Theodor Herzl

I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can…

— Sage Northcutt