Human Effort Quotes
23 quotes by 23 authors
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Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.
— Abba Eban
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
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The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail…
— Max Lerner
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The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort,…
— Dalai Lama
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The Lord has directed, Bring up your children in light and truth. To me, there is no more important human effort. Being a father or…
— James E. Faust
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And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of…
— Grover Cleveland
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block…
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.
— Lewis Mumford
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We are called to be fruitful - not successful, not productive, not accomplished. Success comes from strength, stress, and human effort. Fruitfulness comes from vulnerability…
— Henri Nouwen
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Perhaps immortality is a gift of heaven rather than the result of some human effort.
— Wang Yangming
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Isn't it human beings who impart vitality to the image in the temple? If no one sculpts the stone, it doesn't become an image. If…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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In diminishing the role of the worker's body in the labor process, industrial technology has also tended to diminish the importance of the worker. In…
— Shoshana Zuboff
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For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in…
— Joseph Conrad
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There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is…
— Joyce Meyer
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Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions…
— Cornel West
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in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made…
— Hannah Arendt
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I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made…
— Edward Said
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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The Christ within who is our hope of glory is not a matter of theological debate or philosophical speculation. He is not a hobby, a…
— Brennan Manning
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Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of…
— Tennessee Williams
Who Wrote These Human Effort Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 23 Human Effort Quotes as follows: