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Effort Quotes by John Ruskin
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
- 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…
- The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn,…
- However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight…
- It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time…
- No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of…
- There is no climate, no place, and scarcely an hour, in which nature does not exhibit color which no mortal effort can imitate or approach.…
- The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.
- Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
- A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
- The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and…
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
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