Effort Quote by Henry Rollins

So, the gods don't hand out all their gifts at once, not build and brains and flowing speech to all. One man may fail…

— Homer

“Then this must be my answer: We know that the attributes of God are infinite and it has always seemed strange to me that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

— Vance Havner

Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

— Idries Shah

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by…

— Michel de Montaigne

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be…

— Fred Hoyle

Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for…

— Charles Dickens

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

— Derren Brown

Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep to the…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is usually the case with most men that their nature is so constituted that they pity those who fare badly and envy those…

— Baruch Spinoza

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always…

— Washington Irving