Effort Quotes

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

Norman Mailer

humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.

John Piper

Doing science, particularly the synthesis of disparate ideas, is not as arcane as it is often made out to be. Discipline and taste play a vital role, but the activity is familiar to anyone who has made some effort to be creative.

John Henry Holland

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Nora Roberts

We oppose the West's efforts to gain a monopoly in nuclear fuel, and in nuclear industry and science. I believe that the Iranian success is a great success for the Islamic world.

Mohammad-Javad Larijani

I must endure the torturing ray, And, with all beauty, all desire. Ah, time-long must the effort be, And far the way that I must go To bring my spirit unto thee, Behind the glass, within the glow.

George William Russell

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Ferguson Jenkins

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

Samuel Johnson

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

John Bardeen

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Fritz Todt

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.

Willard Libby

It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start (She looks like a Winnifred to me), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.

Terry Pratchett

Spiritual effort and the joy that comes from understanding life go hand in hand like physical exertion and rest. Without physical exertion, there is no joy in rest; without spiritual effort, there can be no joyful understanding of life.

Leo Tolstoy

He who endeavors to please must appear pleased

Samuel Johnson

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Bertrand Russell

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Mark Twain

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Victor Hugo

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

Albert Einstein