Effort Quotes - page 10

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles. (Swami Vivekananda)
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. View quote
Zaha Hadid
Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality. View quote
Linus Pauling
His [Turgot's] first important literary and scholastic effort was a treatise On the Existence of God. Few fragments of it remain, but we are helped to understand him when we learn that he asserted, and to the end of his life maintained, his belief in an Almighty Creator and Upholder of the Universe. It did, indeed, at a later period suit the purposes of his enemies, exasperated by his tolerant spirit and his reforming plans, to proclaim him an atheist; but that sort of charge has been the commonest of missiles against troublesome thinkers in all times. View quote
Andrew Dickson White
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. View quote
Stephen Leacock
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... View quote
Victor Hugo
All of man's work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this. View quote
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction and knowing you've made the effort, do the best of what you're capable. View quote
John Wooden
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse)
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. View quote
Angela Merkel
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Between "there is a God" and "there is no God" lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The German Army is tired. The vain effort to defeat Russia's armies has used up its equipment and reduced its morale. View quote
Walther von Brauchitsch
I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland. View quote
Fritz Todt
If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce more. Then, if there's a free market, people will trade their surpluses to each other for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer. View quote
John Stossel
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
It is apparently vital that we should be in the dark about ourselves not to be clear about our intentions, fears, and hopes. There is a stubborn effort in us to set up a compact screen between consciousness and the self. (Eric Hoffer)
The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own... Whether it our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith. View quote
Eric Hoffer
It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved. View quote
Isa Bowman
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. View quote
Sydney Smith