Top 100 No Effort Sayings
#1. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
#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. The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.
James Whistler
#4. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.
Paul Graham
#5. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.
Libba Bray
#7. It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.
Dalai Lama
#8. Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
Dinesh D'Souza
#9. I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.
Veronica Roth
#10. Being yourself is easier than trying to be someone else. The former requires no effort.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#11. When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.
Helen Schucman
#12. He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood.
Sarah Addison Allen
#13. A no-effort relationship is a doomed relationship, not a great relationship. It takes work to communicate accurately and it takes work to expose and resolve conflicting hopes and beliefs. It doesn't mean there is no "they lived happily ever after," but it's more like "they worked happily ever after.
Carol S. Dweck
#14. The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.
Paula Fox
#15. I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.
Robert Pattinson
#16. No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
Idries Shah
#17. Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things.
Marty Rubin
#18. I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.
Mario Testino
#19. And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace.
Hermann Hesse
#20. There was no noise, no effort, no consciences in anything he did, but in everything an indescribable lightness, a seeming impossibility of doing nothing else, or doing nothing better, which was so graceful, so natural & agreeable
Charles Dickens
#21. The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess.
Cesare Pavese
#22. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.
Salvador Dali
#23. Have a clear goal and plan. Waste no effort in your journey. Be strong, committed, and effective and you will experience a level of success few will ever know.
Steve Maraboli
#24. God's beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.
Elizabeth George
#25. INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#26. A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#27. They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his 'minimum sustenance' his food, his clothes, his shelter with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it from whom.
Ayn Rand
#28. The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person.
Nhat Hanh
#29. I smoke and drink and have abortions, actually one abortion, but still, I have an A average that I maintain with little or no effort on my part and they despise me for it, mostly because they can't take credit for it.
Lisa O'Donnell
#30. Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
Paulo Coelho
#31. In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?
And here lay the difficulty: by no effort could I get the face before me to fit into the clerical mould which I had all ready in my own mind for it.
George MacDonald
#32. Only the donkey knows how weary it feels, all God cares about are humans, and not all humans, because some of them live like donkeys or worse, and God makes no effort to help them.
Jose Saramago
#33. In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.
Khalil Gibran
#34. But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
Jostein Gaarder
#35. 6 Reasons Why You Should Be A Cat: 1) Free Food. 2) Free Rent. 3) Sleep As Long As You Want. 4) Look Great With No Effort. 5) Toes Look Like Beans. 6) License to Kill!
Pusheen The Cat
#36. Mazoti said nothing. It always seemed that no matter how hard a woman worked, a man could eclipse her with no effort. "Gin,
Ken Liu
#37. I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort - no more than retaining two or three digits.
Daniel Kahneman
#38. How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it?
Simon Cheshire
#39. Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.
Pope Benedict XVI
#40. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.
Philip K. Dick
#41. Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Richard G. Scott
#42. Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.
John McAfee
#43. In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.
Kirby Page
#44. There is no effort in collecting judgements. Being wise with them requires a act of true character.
Joel Kirkpatrick
#45. There is no effort in time wasted by remembering the truth. A lie requires an effort of life and wasted time to remember because one lie tends to become a lifestyle that destroys.
Richard Diaz
#46. No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.
Gretchen Rubin
#47. Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort.
Deepak Chopra
#48. There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
Ramana Maharshi
#49. Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?
Knut Hamsun
#50. He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives, but simply accepted that there were things that women said and did that they would never understand.
Andrew Porter
#51. There has never been another you. With no effort on your part you were born to be something very special and set apart.
What you are going to do in appreciation of that gift is a decision only you can make.
Dan Zadra
#52. 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
#53. If I tried to fit in and still didn't, I would feel worse than I did having made no effort at all.
Laurie Plissner
#54. Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.
Marilyn French
#55. Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
Frederick Carl Frieseke
#56. Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way of finding those who put forth their best even when their situation seems bleak.
Chris Erickson
#57. And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.
Mahmoud Abbas
#58. It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.
Sri Chinmoy
#59. [The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared.
Robert Kennedy
#60. She felt that the diving image of Mme Stahl that she had carried in her soul for a whole month had vanished irretrievably ... And by no effort of imagination could she bring back the former Mme Stahl.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
Emily Post
#63. You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
Quentin Crisp
#64. Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible.
Wil S. Hylton
#65. Thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.
George S. Clason
#66. No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.
Denise Levertov
#68. There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship.
Mahatma Gandhi
#69. Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout
#70. The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.
Rajneesh
#71. Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening
Sumangali Morhall
#72. Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.
Hugh Prather
#73. 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
#74. Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
Al Goldstein
#75. WHERE THERE IS LOVE THERE IS NO EFFORT
David Green
#76. [Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag.
John Ashcroft
#77. Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.
Bryant H. McGill
#78. Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all.
Lev Grossman
#79. It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#80. An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
Thucydides
#81. I love you, Cleo," he said, the words finally coming to him, with no effort at all because of how true they were. "I love you so much it hurts."
Her eyes widened. "What did you just say?"
Magnus almost laughed. "I think you heard me right.
Morgan Rhodes
#83. It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.
Bernard Hopkins
#84. There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston
#85. The instructor was a man of middle age, in his early fifties; his name was Archer Sloane, and he came to his task of teaching with a seeming disdain and contempt, as if he perceived between his knowledge and what he could say a gulf so profound that he would make no effort to close it.
John Edward Williams
#86. The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points.
John Sununu
#87. Travelers, it is late.
Life's sun is going to set.
During these brief days that you have strength,
be quick and spare no effort of your wings
Rumi
#88. There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state.
Richard A. Falk
#89. But she drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch - it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the intelligence, to read or to listen - and what she imagined there was to watch on TV appalled her; she had, of course, only read about it.
John Irving
#91. I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences.
Warren Buffett
#92. All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I'm unraveling in his embrace, I'm frayed and falling apart and I'm making no effort to control the tremors in my bones and he's so hot his skin is so hot and I don't even know where I am anymore.
Tahereh Mafi
#93. God's love is marvelous and mysterious, and no effort of man - no matter how elegant or purposeful - can explain that.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#94. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
Thucydides
#95. She touched a part of him he'd thought was inaccessible. A part that had been jealously guarded for years. And she'd gotten there with no effort whatsoever. She'd walked into his life and heart like she belonged.
Maya Banks
#96. It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.
Corrie Ten Boom
#97. Chaler, who had finished his ale, left the cup where it was, making no effort to procure more, indicating that he was capable of what the natural philosopher calls "learning behaviour," which turn of phrase pleases us so much that we cannot resist making use of it.
Steven Brust
#98. for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he ... all pleasures available freely (but what we attain with no effort we cannot value),
Neil Gaiman
#99. No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert Camus
#100. For faith with no effort is no faith at all.
Max Lucado
