Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. — Napoleon Hill
The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power. — Winston Churchill
What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for… — Swami Vivekananda
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. — Leo Durocher
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice of love. — Sathya Sai Baba
Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for. In… — Esther Hicks
Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things.… — Richard Koch
To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and… — Henri Nouwen
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in… — Alfie Kohn
The overwhelming astonishment, the queerest structure we know about so far in the whole universe, the greatest of all cosmological scientific puzzles, confounding all our… — Lewis Thomas
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to… — George Polya
There is now a feeling that the pieces of physics are falling into place, not because of any single revolutionary idea or because of the… — Steven Weinberg
Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay. — Drew Barrymore
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace. — Ludwig von Mises
Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. — Pierre de Coubertin
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of one's true being.… — Ramana Maharshi
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be… — Carolyn Wells
Effort is a measure of a Man. — William James
You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the… — Maxwell Maltz
To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try. — Thomas Jefferson
To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. — John Fowles
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. — James A. Garfield
There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts. — Janet Reno

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