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Effort Quotes (page 43)

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist. Ayn Rand
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of effort, labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not the the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. Theodore Roosevelt
Anne Tyler quote: "It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard..."
It was Serena who'd said that motherhood was much too hard and, when you got right down to it, perhaps not worth the effort. Anne Tyler
How fabulous down was for those first minutes! Down, down, down I'd go until down too became impossible and punishing and so relentless that I'd pray for the trail to go back up. Going down, I realized was like taking hold of the loose strand of yarn on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained... Cheryl Strayed
What need had I of so many efforts? The soft lines of these hills and the hand of evening on this troubled heart teach me much more. Albert Camus
She prowled the city on moonlit nights, and OK, there was the occasional chicken, but she always remembered where she'd been and went round the next day to shove some money under the door. It was hard to be a vegetarian who had to pick bits of meat out of her teeth in the morning. She was definately on top of it, though. It was easy to be a vegetarian by day. It was preventing yourself from becoming a humanitarian at night that took the real effort. Terry Prachett
Julia Cameron quote: "Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse."
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. Julia Cameron
Portia de Rossi quote: "Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that..."
Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular. Portia de Rossi
Maxwell Maltz quote: "Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative..."
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism. Maxwell Maltz
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written..."
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. W. Somerset Maugham
Well, I dreamed I was playing Quidditch the other night,' said Ron, screwing up his face in an effort to remember. 'What d'you reckon that means?''Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something,' said Harry. J. K. Rowling
Bella, I've already expended a great deal of personal effort at this point to keep you alive. I'm not about to let you behind the wheel of a vehicle when you can't even walk straight. Besides, friends don't let friends drive drunk," he quoted with a chuckle. I could smell the unbearably sweet fragrance coming off his chest."Drunk?" I objected."You're intoxicated by my very presence." He was grinning that playful smirk again. Stephenie Meyer
Charles Dickens quote: "Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that..."
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. Charles Dickens
I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles. Jim Harrison
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence. Yasunari Kawabata

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