Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. — Napoleon Hill
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living. Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man… — John Dewey
The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort. — Ayn Rand
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't… — Bill Murray
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort… — Terry Pratchett
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

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