Life Effort Quotes

#1. Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.

Carol S. Dweck

#2. The proper request of love is that our entire life should be oriented to the imitation of the Beloved. Let us therefore spare no effort to leave a transparent trace of God's love in our life.

Pope Benedict XVI

#3. Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

Karen Armstrong

#5. Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Dagobert D. Runes

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

Rose Wilder Lane

#7. There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

Marcus Garvey

#8. I didn't want to let you down, Sky. I've let everyone down in my life that's ever loved me, and after that day at lunch I knew I let you down, too. So ... I left you before you could start loving me. Otherwise, any effort to try not to disappoint you would be hopeless.

Colleen Hoover

#9. The effort to create a work of art that is true and potentially lasting, that is the very best work of art you can create at that point in your life - a book that may only reach or move a few people but will seem to those people somehow transformative. That's the ideal; that's always the motivation.

Claire Messud

#10. Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.

Phil McGraw

#11. For a while there's nothing I can do but stand in the middle of the road, because going forward hurts too much. Going forward means continuing to try, when trying is so hard. The world is filled with idiots and assholes and monsters. Where are the guardian angels?

Carolyn Lee Adams

#12. Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Napoleon Hill

#13. I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

Jeremy Sisto

#14. I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Joe Namath

#15. I thought I might become someone else in time, grafted on to something better and stronger. And then I saw that the running away was a running towards. An effort to catch up with my fleet-footed self, living another life in a different way.

Jeanette Winterson

#16. Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

#17. Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Plato

#18. I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.

Eva Green

#19. Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

Anuj

#20. I wish to continue reading.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. If we truly want to end youth homelessness ... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

Cyndi Lauper

#22. If we are going to inquire into that, (religion, i.e. a life in which there is no fragmentation whatsoever) we must not only be free of all belief, but also we must be very clear about the distorting factor of all effort, direction and purpose.

Krishnamurti

#23. One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.

Kay Robertson

#24. Very little effort is needed to create a prosperous life. Focus on positivity, prosperity, and love.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#26. It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Joyce Carol Oates

#27. We can proceed according to the planned itinerary, strenuously trying to make life conform to our needs, or we can adapt to whatever we meet and flow without effort.

Piero Ferrucci

#28. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

Steve Goodier

#29. She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.

Don DeLillo

#30. Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

Orison Swett Marden

#31. Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away.

Leo Tolstoy

#32. Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes he preferred writers and sometimes he preferred people.

Malcolm Bradbury

#33. The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

Steven Redhead

#34. There is no better life than a life spent laboring at love - exerting effort not because we have to, but because we believe that what we are bringing into being is valuable and we want it to exist. Yet because our culture tends to misunderstand the nature of labor and of love, we undervalue both.

Moira Weigel

#35. The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.

James Van Praagh

#36. I just saved your fucking life, Mom ... It's like, if you
people of a certain age
would make some effort to just stay in touch with sort of basic, modern-day events, then your kids wouldn't have to take these drastic measures.

Neal Stephenson

#37. How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?

Simon Cheshire

#38. All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the distances of space and time. I, too, was taking part in the effort which humanity makes to know.

Simone De Beauvoir

#39. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. You were formed inside a borrowed womb - a nourishing safe haven for months - then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. Denial couldn't be maintained.

Dean Koontz

#42. The one thing in life you can control is your effort. Are there any shortcuts in the beauty business? No. That was the first lesson I learned. You can't just rocket to the top.

Mark Cuban

#43. When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home - you'll go home.

Rick Warren

#44. From my point of view it is immoral for a being not to make the most intense effort every instant of his life.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#45. When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face.

Anthony Liccione

#46. I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.

Jason Peter

#47. The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Ayn Rand

#48. It's fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That's what human life is all about - enjoying things.

Julia Child

#49. Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy.

Jessica Scorpio

#50. That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard. Joanna

Vicki Pettersson

#51. Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#52. My life

has been given its orders: the seasons
seize

the soul and the body, and make mock
of any dispersed effort. The hour of death

is the only trespass

Charles Olson

#53. Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Erich Fromm

#54. As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.

Craig Briggs

#55. Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

Robert Breault

#56. One thing I have learned is that the people who label you are usually the ones who know the least about who you really are and they have never made the effort to learn different.

J.S. Goldstine

#57. If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this Way, he can still become a master if he so chooses. By keeping at a particular form of study a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next (if a next life is believed in).

Miyamoto Musashi

#58. Grant me the stormy seas over a life of ease, the toil and madness of a life of effort, and adventure , and meaning. The safe harbor is not for me, not for long. Let the fearful stand at the shore and point as we head into the unknown, toward that vast horizon where the bold become legend.

Brendon Burchard

#59. I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

Stephen Jay Gould

#60. Achievement is no hocus-pocus. It's focus, focus!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#61. Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.

Oriana Fallaci

#62. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.

Carla H. Krueger

#63. It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.

Stuart Wilde

#64. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort.

Ayn Rand

#65. In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.

Leon Brown

#66. Total time spent together with effort yields the value of a product

Sunday Adelaja

#67. Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.

Roger Staubach

#68. I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important.

Kelley York

#69. It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.

Maria Montessori

#70. The price of life is effort; the acme of effort is accomplishment; the reward of accomplishment is joy.

James Allen

#71. Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

O. S. Hawkins

#72. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

#73. Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.

Jillian Michaels

#74. Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of painting it is my efforts to create an equivalent with paint color for the world, life as I see it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#75. For the first time in his life he began to experience a kind of true pride. He felt himself, so to speak, taking up space when he walked in the streets; and he wondered whether this was how other people felt all the time, without effort, all the secure people he met in London and Africa.

V.S. Naipaul

#76. There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

Dallas Willard

#77. Without continuous encouragement, we may give up.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#78. We live in a world where most people only dream of what they could become and that's the problem. Everything takes effort and work; there isn't a single person that isn't thrown challenges from life

Helen Jane Rose

#79. Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.

Sylvia Earle

#80. The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Henry Rollins

#81. The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

Francis Of Assisi

#82. You can accomplish great things by attempting great things.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#84. Monika answered for her father. Giving Walter a conspiratorial grin, she said: Daddy used to say that if the tsar had been born to a different station in life, he might, with an effort, have become a competent postman.

Ken Follett

#85. What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I can't afford to yet? What the hell am I supposed to do?

Yukako Kabei

#86. Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

#87. The difference between nations lay not in the technology itself but in the totality of the effort that brought that technology to life.

Amy Shira Teitel

#88. I am worth the effort of creating a blissful life. I choose to care for myself like a treasured lover. I love myself.

Amy Leigh Mercree

#89. Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.

Carol Vorderman

#90. We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

Winston Churchill

#91. My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

RuPaul

#92. Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that.

Mesa Selimovic

#93. Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered ... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.

William Morris Hunt

#94. Owning your style takes some effort, and it's okay to expend effort on how you look. Putting in effort is exactly what you should be doing. You should get dressed for your life. I don't care if the only place you have to go is the post office. Get dressed, #girlboss, and let your freak flag fly.

Sophia Amoruso

#95. Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort.

Ai Weiwei

#96. I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one's ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.

Lawren Harris

#97. A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.

Henry David Thoreau

#98. Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

Florence Kelley

#99. The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt

#100. Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Mahatma Gandhi