Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

Men will get no more out of life than they put into it. — William J. H. Boetcker
It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying… — Julia Child
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. — Edgar Allan Poe
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. — Richard Whately
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. — Richard G. Scott
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Always do one thing less than you think you can do. — Bernard Baruch
Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then… — Rajneesh
Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of… — Rajneesh
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. — Simone Weil
Remember the word bodhichitta, because Atisha says the whole effort of religion, the whole science of religion, is nothing but an endeavor to create bodhichitta,… — Rajneesh
The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Remember, don't start trying to relax; that is the most absurd thing in the world. And there are many stupid people writing books about relaxation.… — Rajneesh
Ambition is violence, the very effort to succeed in the world is violent. — Rajneesh
Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the… — Ralph Marston
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand -… — Thomas A. Edison
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels… — Blaise Pascal
Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort. — Bobby Bowden
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil ... which… — Elizabeth Blackwell
He who endeavors to please must appear pleased. — Samuel Johnson
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. — Og Mandino
Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort. — Og Mandino
Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see. — Michael Crichton

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