Quotes with effort

  • Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...
  • But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
  • To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
  • Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
  • Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
  • Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
  • 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 and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search.
  • A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
  • It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
  • In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
    ― Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bruce Lee As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
    Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 5 On training in Jeet Kune Do
    ― Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Allen Ginsberg Fortunately art is a community effort, a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
    ― Allen Ginsberg
    American poet (1926 - 1997)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.
    ― Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arnold Palmer Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
    ― Arnold Palmer
    American golf player (1929 - 2016)
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  • Bill Bryson Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.
    ― Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    ― Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • John F. Kennedy Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
    Source: Speech Releigh, 17-09-1960
    ― John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Jules Renard Fame is a constant effort
    ― Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
    ― G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The men and women who have the right ideals... are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty.
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Johnson What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
    ― Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Sher ''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
    ― Barbara Sher
    American speaker, lifestyle coach, and author (1935 - 2020)
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  • John Ruskin A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
    ― John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Herm Albright A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
    ― Herm Albright
    German-American painter and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • H. Jackson Brown Jr A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr
    American author (1940 - 2021)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
    ― Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Billy Strayhorn A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.
    ― Billy Strayhorn
    American jazz composer and pianist (1915 - 1967)
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  • Gloria Pitzer About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
    ― Gloria Pitzer
     
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