Effort Quotes - page 2

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. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it. View quote
Ben Carson
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. View quote
Christopher Morley
I see disappointment as something small and aggregate rather than something unified or great. With a little effort, every failure can be turned into something good. View quote
Eleanor Catton
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man. View quote
Leonard Woolf
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. View quote
Pat Riley
If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. View quote
Branch Rickey
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish. (Vivienne Westwood)
If a warrior is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Don't think, feel.... The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will become. View quote
Bruce Lee
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race. View quote
L. Neil Smith
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. View quote
Norman Mailer
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. View quote
Epictetus
Effort supposes resistance. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
If there is effort, there is always accomplishment. View quote
Jigoro Kano
My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. View quote
Gary Becker
Theory is taught so as to make the student believe that he or she can become a Marxist, a feminist, an Afrocentrist, or a deconstructionist with about the same effort and commitment required in choosing items from a menu. View quote
Edward Said
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can't be happy in those heels. (Kate Winslet)
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. View quote
Anaïs Nin
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gift -absolute gifts- which have not been acquired by one's effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul. View quote
Kate Chopin
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. View quote
Nora Roberts