EFFORT QUOTES II

quotations about effort

Sometimes it takes a pound of effort to gain an ounce of gold.

JON R. STONE

The Routledge Book of World Proverbs


Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

"The Strenuous Life,", The Works of Theodore Roosevelt


Trying is like that. It can be very frustrating. And exhausting. Funny thing about when my daughter tries so hard. She's usually trying to do something that won't work. Like trying to put a lid on something upside down. I used to try really hard.

JOEY LOTT

The Best Thing That Never Happened


Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

WILLIAM JAMES

Talks to Teachers on Psychology


Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort.

WALTER RUSSELL

THINK: IBM Lecture Series


On the wonder wheel I let my thunder peel
I made an effort to get just what I deserve

BECK

"Thunder Peel", Stereopathetic Soulmanure


The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

ANTONIN SERTILLANGES

The Intellectual Life


The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

MARY SHELLEY

Frankenstein


It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Dance Dance Dance


You can accomplish more with less effort if you schedule important tasks at the time of day when you perform them most effectively.

MICHAEL LEBOEUF

attributed, Words of Wisdom and Quotable Quotes


Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

NAPOLEON HILL

attributed, Worth Repeating


All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Diary


Productive effort is variable and volitional. It is under the control of our will or desire. No one has to make it but the consequence of non?effort is non?production thus non?consumption, a consequence most of us (who want to live) will not choose.

CHRISTOPHER ALAN ANDERSON

The Man and Woman Manifesto


If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

WILLIAM JAMES

Talks to Teachers on Psychology


Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

DEMOCRITUS

attributed, Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers


I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.

KATHERINE ARDEN

The Girl in the Tower


What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Johnsonian Miscellanies


God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires us to try.

MOTHER TERESA

Rolling Stone, Dec. 1992


By labor, fire is got out of a stone.

DUTCH PROVERB