Quotes About Fruitless Efforts

#1. He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Samuel Johnson

#2. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

#3. The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

Victor Hugo

#4. The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Harper Lee

#5. Life is about decisions, so quit blaming someone else for the bad choices you make.

Karen Beaudin

#6. I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Joan Jett

#7. What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Brian May

#8. Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.

Franz Schubert

#9. As long as I'm still surfing wherever I am, I'll always be happy.

Stephanie Gilmore

#10. What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.

Mitchell Feigenbaum

#11. I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole.
Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Marc Maron

#12. It's so easy to look around and notice what's wrong. It takes practice to see what's right.

Melody Beattie

#13. If you should ask me what are the ways of God, I would tell you that the first is humility, the second is humility, and the third is humility. Not that there are no other precepts to give, but if humility does not preceed all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Saint Augustine

#14. Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today!

Benito Mussolini

#15. Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

Daniel Odier

#16. He threw the Bible into the trumpet case as well. There had to be something in there, some useful tips for his situation, a homeopathic remedy that you could apply when you came down with a bad case of the devil.

Joe Hill

#17. I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does.

Keira Knightley

#18. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

Rita Ora