Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence… — Branch Rickey
Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality...an effort… — Parker J. Palmer
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as… — Eduardo Galeano
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life… — Sallust
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for… — Chuck Barris
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort. — Francois Quesnay
History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist… — Scott Ritter
Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly… — William Hazlitt
Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it. — Allen Tate
Factory-farm lobbyists are so powerful and so well funded and they do everything in their power to hide the truth about farming. They keep the… — Unknown Author
As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a… — Melissa Bean
Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this… — Ammon Hennacy
Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort. — Dizzy Dean
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness… — R. Scott Bakker
Man’s works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of… — John Sung
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is… — Barbara Ehrenreich
When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational… — Sandra Dodd
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many… — Charlotte Mason
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be… — Matthieu Ricard
The mind is malleable. Our life can be greatly transformed by even a minimal change in how we manage our thoughts and perceive and interpret… — Matthieu Ricard
The bad news is that ignoring the performance of people is almost as bad as shredding their effort in front of their eyes. … The… — Dan Ariely
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even… — Nel Noddings
The conventional wisdom in our business is that you have to grow and keep moving to survive. We never grew, always stayed tiny, and it serves… — Stefan Sagmeister
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with ideal Anarchism; Individualism… — Voltairine de Cleyre
We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do… — Marc Bekoff

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