Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to… — Pope Pius XI
There is another side [to ego] that can wreck a team or an organization. That is being distracted by your own importance. It can come… — Bill Walsh
The time and thought which most persons waste in aimless effort would accomplish wonders if properly directed with some special object in view. In order… — Charles F. Haanel
There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but… — Larry Coryell
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it… — Frank Moore Colby
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. — David O. McKay
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based… — Leo Strauss
To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends… — Michael Parenti
That is the hope that inspires Christians. We know that every effort to better society, especially when injustice and sin are so ingrained, is an… — Oscar Romero
It would be a mistake to ascribe this creative power to an inborn talent. In art, the genius creator is not just a gifted being,… — Henri Matisse
It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. — Robert Caro
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth… — Tracy Kidder
Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost — Cheryl Strayed
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling… — Cheryl Strayed
Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger.… — Jon Krakauer
I discovered years ago that the best results in this respect could be gained by running 100 miles weekly at my near best aerobic efforts… — Arthur Lydiard
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it. — Sharon Salzberg
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’ — Jon Kabat-Zinn
All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some… — Angus Wilson
It was not Christianity which freed the slave: Christianity accepted slavery; Christian ministers defended it; Christian merchants trafficked in human flesh and blood, and drew… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner
Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my… — Tim Tebow
Significant progress in the solutions of technical problems is frequently made not by a direct approach, but by first setting a goal of high challenge… — Ernst Stuhlinger
I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I do for the… — J. G. Holland

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