Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. — Thucydides
I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day… — Mark Twain
Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious:… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I… — George Washington Carver
The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take… — Paul Dirac
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because… — Oscar Wilde
There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease. — Marc Benioff
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like… — Sri Chinmoy
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet;… — Sri Chinmoy
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war...… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love. — Sharon Salzberg
So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have its own way,… — Rajneesh
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can… — Rajneesh
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just… — Rajneesh
Almost every work of art is an analogy. When I make a representation of something, this too is an analogy to what exists; I make… — Gerhard Richter
Effort is grossly underrated. — Gary Vaynerchuk
I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace. — Daisaku Ikeda
The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything. — Mark Cuban
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. — Winston Churchill
If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior… — Adolf Hitler
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
Our faith is well founded; but it is necessary that this faith become part of our lives. A great effort must therefore be made in… — Pope Benedict XVI
Meditation is not your doing. You simply make the effort, but it is not your doing. Your effort is needed to prepare the ground. As… — Rajneesh

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