Top 100 Without Effort Quotes
#1. Effort without talent is a depressing situation ... but talent without effort is a tragedy.
Mike Ditka
#2. 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
#3. The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort
Clement Greenberg
#4. The only thing which is of lasting benefit to a man is that which he does for himself. Money which comes to him without effort on his part is seldom a benefit and often a curse.
John D. Rockefeller
#5. A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin
#6. Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire
#7. Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.
Lilli Palmer
#8. About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
Albert Einstein
#9. Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.
Blaise Pascal
#10. Without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that
R.A. Salvatore
#11. The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.
Deepak Chopra
#12. The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.
Deepak Chopra
#13. A man of action as well as a man of thought, all he did was without effort to one of his vigorous and sanguine temperament.
Jules Verne
#14. A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.
Charles Spurgeon
#15. We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
Christopher Morley
#16. 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
#17. Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.
Henri De Lubac
#19. Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
Baldassare Castiglione
#21. The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
Thomas Carlyle
#23. Love is being able to talk to someone else without effort, without hiding, and at the same time to feel absolutely comfortable not saying a word. At least that's one way I've figured out hot to describe love.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#24. Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.
Mustafa Mahmud
#25. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
Steven Galloway
#26. You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.
Dante Alighieri
#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. And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.
Paul Gauguin
#29. The image pleases me enough : to slip from the body's tight container and into some luminous womb, gliding there without effort till the distant shapes glow brighter and more familiar, till all your beloveds hover before you, their lit arms held out in welcome.
Mary Karr
#30. Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses.
Rebecca McNutt
#31. To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Bertrand Russell
#32. Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but merely a happening.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. You're very difficult." He only flashed her the slightest of smiles. "Likely why you wed me. It wouldn't have done for you to have found a man simply and won him without effort.
Lynn Kurland
#34. Without effort and willingness to experience pain and anxiety, nobody grows, in fact nobody achieves anything worth achieving.
Erich Fromm
#35. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge
#36. Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.
Bertrand Russell
#37. It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was perhaps a perfectly definite necessity of that life and would have been absorbed by it without effort.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#38. Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.
Vicente Del Bosque
#39. Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.
Francois Arago
#40. One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.
Mechthild Of Magdeburg
#41. Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
Alan Cohen
#42. Beauty in mathematics is seeing the truth without effort.
George Polya
#43. But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
Xenophanes
#44. Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.
Camille Saint-Saens
#45. Respect is earned by effort not age, all things age without effort.
C. Sean McGee
#46. The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men produce such a prodigious amount of work, seemingly without effort and without fatigue. The amount of work such men leave to posterity is amazing.
Walter Russell
#47. A morality that comes with effort is immoral. A morality that comes without effort is the only morality there is.
Osho
#48. No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#49. The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.
Rajneesh
#50. You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort
Amy Tan
#51. Real sharpness comes without effort.
Li Mu
#52. This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.
Tito Colliander
#53. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but didn't. With
Angela Duckworth
#54. I'm convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to mend instantly as though never affected.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#55. There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
Nora Roberts
#56. The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.
Gilbert Highet
#57. Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#58. Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.
Baldassare Castiglione
#60. Can you be serious for two words?"
"Not without effort.
Steven Brust
#61. About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer
#63. The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
Amby Burfoot
#64. The Power of The Heart is capable of overcoming without effort almost every negativity.
Steven Redhead
#65. The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
Nathaniel Branden
#66. Happy is the man who can with vigorous wing Mount to those luminous serene fields! The man whose thoughts, like larks, Take liberated flight toward the morning skies
Who hovers over life and understands without effort The language of flowers and voiceless things!
Charles Baudelaire
#67. It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
Maria Montessori
#68. Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire
#72. Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion.
Martin Luther
#73. What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
#74. He acts without contact,instructs without meeting,guides without pointing.Desires do not conflict with Him,thoughts do not mingle with Him:His essence is without qualification (takyeef),His action without effort (takleef).
Mansur Al-Hallaj
#75. Alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
Charles Bukowski
#76. That these people are wandering around, looking for aliens to justify the emptiness inside them and let them feel special without effort, creeps me out.
Thomm Quackenbush
#77. Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#78. He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.
Confucius
#79. The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.
Francis Of Assisi
#80. When learning is recognized in the fabric of life and encouraged, when families make their decisions based on what leads to more interesting and educational ends, children learn without effort, often without even knowing it, and parents learn along with them.
Sandra Dodd
#81. If disaster, so be it, they said to themselves. There was nothing to be done except what could be done. The rest
like the salt water around them, which swallowed the snow without effort, remaining what it was implacably
was out of their hands, beyond.
David Guterson
#83. ... she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star.
Louisa May Alcott
#84. Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
William Arthur Ward
#85. The Tao of the sage is work without effort.
Laozi
#87. He would like to be capable of writing as he thinks, quickly, without effort, the word as agile and dynamic as athletes in a race, jumping over hurdles, one after the other, go, go, go, flying towards the finishing post, faster than the disgust limping behind him.
Filippo Bologna
#88. 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
#89. To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.
R.A. Salvatore
#90. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.
Helen Yglesias
#91. The greatest step towards a life of happiness and simplicity is to let go. Trust in the power that is already taking care of you spontaneously without effort.
Mooji
#92. One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.
Jane Welsh Carlyle
#93. Jessica was clearly in her element, moving with the music naturally and without effort. Even her lustrous golden hair swayed to the beat, completing the perfect picture of a dancer caught up in ecstasy.
Francine Pascal
#94. Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
Napoleon Hill
#95. For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#96. No one succeeds without effort ... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana Maharshi
#97. It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#98. The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.
Jerry Bridges
#99. All natural results are spontaneous. The diamond sparkles without effort, and the flowers open impulsively beneath the summer rain. And true religion is a spontaneous thing,
as natural as it is to weep, to love, or to rejoice.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#100. Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.
Rajneesh
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