Vain Efforts Quotes
- But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the… — Confucius
- Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves. They never get… — Thomas Merton
- You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts… — Leo Tolstoy
- In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or… — Denis Diderot