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- My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men. -- Charles M. Schwab
- In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. -- Alvin Ailey
- I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game. -- Joe Namath
- In life every effort is marked down at the end as a win or a loss. -- Edward Bennett Williams
- If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. -- Goldwin Smith
- Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life. -- Cesar Millan
- I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end. -- David Walliams
- Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be. -- Hugh Dillon
- Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference. -- Orlando Bloom
- In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts. -- Peter McWilliams
- 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
- I think a certain amount of stress in life is good. The stress of just working, which takes effort - I think it keeps you going. -- Anthony Hopkins
- Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity. -- Robert Trout
- If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in. -- Alonzo Mourning
- 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
- I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings. -- Patricia Polacco
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. -- James A. Baldwin
- The reward of eternal life requires effort. -- Thomas S. Monson
- Life is an effort that deserves a better cause. -- Karl Kraus
- All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
- Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. -- Olen Steinhauer
- Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it. -- John C. Maxwell
- The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure. -- Francis of Assisi
- Life and love generate effort but effort will not generate them. -- Alan Watts
- Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. -- Aldous Huxley
- Life is enriched by aspiration and effort, rather than by acquisition and accumulation. -- Helen and Scott Nearing
- Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
- With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable. -- Gene Simmons
- There is only one thing in life you can control: Your own effort. -- Mark Cuban
- Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life -- William Ellery Channing
- Life is much more interesting when you make a little bit of effort. -- Ai Weiwei
- Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. -- George Eliot
- Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul. -- Sri Chinmoy
- I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. -- Henry James
- I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. -- Nancy Friday
- It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally. -- Stuart Wilde
- True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.... -- Walter Inglis Anderson
- It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes. -- Jo Brand
- Even though my work life is very intense, I make a conscious effort to be healthy. -- Jessica Scorpio
- A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship. -- W. G. Grace
- Good intentions and earnest effort are not enough. Only Jesus can make an otherwise futile life productive. -- Charles R. Swindoll
- Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort. -- Finn Jones
- The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside. -- Fred Pierce Corson
- Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. -- Karen Armstrong
- The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. -- Helen Keller
- Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. -- Rose Wilder Lane
- Once you realize how effortless the highest way of life is, it takes tremendous effort to assume the opposite. -- Lester Levenson
- When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting. -- Barbara Tuchman
- The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. -- David O. McKay
- If people give me a year or two of their best effort, then I am their friend for life. -- Charlie Trotter
- It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously. -- Maria Montessori
- Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think. -- Dagobert D. Runes
- The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. -- Salvador Dali
- Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. -- Robert A. Heinlein
- The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be. -- James Van Praagh
- I have been on a life-long search of how to stay in shape without putting any effort into it whatsoever. -- Chelsea Handler
- Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural. -- Anuj
- Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead. -- Roderick E. Stevens
- The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss... -- Huldrych Zwingli
- The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner. -- Vincent Van Gogh
- You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want. -- Kim Kardashian
- Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. -- Nancy Mitford
- There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me. -- Dan Chaon
- The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life. -- Swami Vivekananda
- It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. -- A.J. Ayer
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- The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. -- Albert Camus
- My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
- You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random. -- Mark Cuban
- I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
- A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life. -- Emmet Fox
- 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
- 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
- The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
- A lot of cities are making a real effort, neighborhood by neighborhood, to make themselves into a place where life can be pretty good. -- David Byrne
- Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you. -- Jack LaLanne
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement. -- Aristotle
- The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action. -- Wallace D. Wattles
- 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
- If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle. -- Robert Anthony
- 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
- Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. -- Tammy Bruce
- If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own. -- Ted Harts
- Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life. -- Urijah Faber
- My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive. -- Albert Einstein
- You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
- You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement. -- Ben Stein
- Life turns out to be the best for those who give their best effort whatever they do and enjoy the abundance of life with love and gratitude. -- Debasish Mridha
- 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
- If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay. -- Michael Cera
- I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it. -- John Caudwell
- 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
- I'm definitely a romantic, I don't think life is really worth all the pain and effort and struggling if you don't have somebody that you love very much -- Chet Baker
- 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
- Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. -- Stephen Fry
- A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 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
- I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort. -- Shakira
- On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. -- Ann Voskamp
- 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
- Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. -- Pierre de Coubertin
- Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves. -- Tullian Tchividjian
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