Top 34 Constant Effort Quotes
#1. The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition ... is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.
Adam Smith
#2. Every person who comes into this world must make the decision as to what type of person they want to be. Establishing yourself once is not enough. It's an ongoing, constant effort to separate yourself from who you feel that you are, and from who you want to become.
Ali Warren
#3. What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.
H.L. Mencken
#4. Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Elbert Hubbard
#5. Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.
Allen Tate
#6. Give constant attention and committed effort to your dreams, and your motivation will perpetuate itself. Demonstrate a positive attitude as you strive for great things and take care to create a supportive environment around you that amplifies your motivation.
Brendon Burchard
#7. I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.
Elena Ferrante
#8. Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
#9. It was like any relationship, he felt - it took constant pruning, and dedication, and vigilance, and if neither party wanted to make the effort, why wouldn't it wither?
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.
Marvin J. Ashton
#11. I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
Philip Yancey
#12. I believe that constant effort, tireless effort, pursuing clear goals with sincere effort is the only way
Dalai Lama
#13. Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#14. The effort to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. And that it is out constant efforts to eliminate the negative - insecurity, uncertainty, failure, or sadness - that is what causes us to feel so insecure, anxious, uncertain, or unhappy.
Oliver Burkeman
#15. We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.
Robert Genn
#16. The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#17. It requires a constant effort to keep people worried about inconsequential issues and unconcerned with important matters.
Robert Kroese
#18. Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little flashes of effort. Constant and valiant living is necessary.
Jack H. Goaslind
#19. It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.
Stuart Wilde
#20. Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
Joel Garreau
#21. Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after a rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers.
Seneca.
#22. Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.
G. Stanley Hall
#23. It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol
#24. It would be so easy to stop getting up. To stop washing. To stop eating. Being alone required such constant effort.
Rachel Joyce
#25. All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.
Walter Pater
#26. A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.
John Tomac
#28. Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.
Dallas Willard
#29. How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? ... No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#30. If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
Jean Vanier
#31. Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.
Og Mandino
#32. Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.
Yigal Allon
#33. The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Thomas Malthus
#34. I'm really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist - a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion and recuperation.
Mark Haddon
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