Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own… — Ayn Rand
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island… — Ayn Rand
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… — John Ruskin
The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early… — Thomas Jefferson
What America needs is to hold to its ancient and well-charted course. Our country was conceived in the theory of local self-government. It has been… — Calvin Coolidge
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious,… — Alexander Hamilton
To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients,… — Alexander Hamilton
You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the… — Eckhart Tolle
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear… — Svetlana Alliluyeva
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something… — Edith Hamilton
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of… — Albert Camus
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service as a local… — Jimmy Carter
The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We… — Ronald Reagan
If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment... — Edgar Allan Poe
I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in… — William Hazlitt
Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with privilege and position — Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine… — Nelson Mandela
Our efforts have brought new hope to all mankind. We have beaten back despair and defeatism. We have saved a number of countries from losing… — Harry S. Truman
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society… — Quentin Crisp
Penetrate deeply in the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon… — Myrtle Reed
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry.… — Ramana Maharshi
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the… — Georges Cuvier

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