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Effort Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you.
- What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as…
- Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable…
- Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have…
- By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men…
- Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
- Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
- ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who…
- The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be…
More Effort Quotes
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material… — Julian Assange
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort,… — Charles Babbage
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort… — James A. Baldwin
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present… — James A. Baldwin
- Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what… — Johnny Ball
- The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. — Roger Bannister