Effort Quotes

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

If your best efforts bring less than desirable results because your mental health is suffering, I hope you know you are still worthy and doing all that you can. You deserve to applaud yourself.

If we could execute with a monumental effort just to reach an immediate goal that everyone could see, we could then continue to the next visually.

It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.