Endless Effort Quotes

#1. Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Erich Fromm

#3. The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Arnold Bennett

#4. Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Rose Wilder Lane

#5. You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It's okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. 'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.

Gretchen Rubin

#7. A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

W. G. Grace

#8. As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

Mervyn Peake