Effort Quotes - page 3

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete. (Robert Browning)
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. View quote
James Baldwin
I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them. View quote
Martti Ahtisaari
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. View quote
Henry Rollins
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. View quote
George Sand
Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. (Rose Wilder Lane)
Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. View quote
William Wordsworth
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. View quote
André Gide
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. View quote
Isadora Duncan
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. View quote
Learned Hand
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. View quote
Vince Lombardi
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. View quote
Erich Fromm
Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of us all. View quote
Che Guevara
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
The judgment that human life is worth living, or rather can and ought to be made worth living, ... underlies all intellectual effort; it is the a priori of social theory, and its rejection (which is perfectly logical) rejects theory itself. (Herbert Marcuse)
I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. View quote
Ansel Adams
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. View quote
Michael Winner
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. View quote
Mark Twain