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Image of Philip Yancey
Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.
- Philip Yancey
Collection: Effort
Image of Philip Pullman
But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.
- Philip Pullman
Collection: Effort
Image of John Stuart Mill
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
- John Stuart Mill
Collection: Effort
Image of Mary Balogh
Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.
- Mary Balogh
Collection: Effort
Image of Alice Miller
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
- Alice Miller
Collection: Effort
Image of Janet Reno
We are trying to identify employers that might be [hiring illegal aliens] and to take effective action against them. We're trying to make sure that employers that want to cooperate have a system whereby they can verify the employment status of a person that they are seeking to hire. It is part of a comprehensive initiative in which we look both at the border, at the workplace, at criminal aliens, in an attempt to have a comprehensive effort aimed at stopping illegal immigration while at the same time promoting legal immigration according to principles of due process.
- Janet Reno
Collection: Effort
Image of Gary Vaynerchuk
Stop crying... keep hustling.
- Gary Vaynerchuk
Collection: Effort
Image of Simon Sinek
Work requires effort. Things we love to do feel effortless. Only do the things you love and you'll never have to work again.
- Simon Sinek
Collection: Effort
Image of Rajneesh
To live moment to moment is the life of meditation. Then life becomes spontaneous without any effort; then nobody can make you miserable, nobody can disappoint you, nobody can make you a failure because in the first place you were not trying to be a success; you were not asking the future to be in a certain way. So whatever happens, the next moment you can rejoice. It is always your victory.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Effort
Image of Cheryl Strayed
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward, I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something. That perhaps being amidst the undesecrated beauty of the wilderness meant I too could be undesecrated, regardless of the regrettable things I'd done to others or myself or the regrettable things that had been done to me. Of all the things I'd been skeptical about, I didn't feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.
- Cheryl Strayed
Collection: Effort
Image of Freya Stark
Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.
- Freya Stark
Collection: Effort
Image of Thomas Merton
The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.
- Thomas Merton
Collection: Effort
Image of Marilyn Ferguson
The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Collection: Effort
Image of Sharon Salzberg
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
- Sharon Salzberg
Collection: Effort
Image of Iris Murdoch
Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
- Iris Murdoch
Collection: Effort
Image of Eleanor Roosevelt
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Collection: Effort
Image of Leo Tolstoy
The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true
- Leo Tolstoy
Collection: Effort
Image of Erin Morgenstern
We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
- Erin Morgenstern
Collection: Effort
Image of Jules Renard
Fame is a constant effort
- Jules Renard
Collection: Effort
Image of B. F. Skinner
It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.
- B. F. Skinner
Collection: Effort
Image of Stuart Wilde
It takes a constant effort of mind to avoid the abundance that life offers naturally.
- Stuart Wilde
Collection: Effort
Image of Rajneesh
First you have to do all that you can do, and then you have to learn non-doing. The doing of the non-doing is the greatest doing, and the effort of effortlessness is the greatest effort.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Effort
Image of Karl Rove
If you are wealthy and can hire enough accountants and attorneys, you can find ways around the code. It's fundamentally not fair. It wastes a lot of time and energy and effort to comply with it. It doesn't encourage savings and investment. And we need to simply it and make it more fair.
- Karl Rove
Collection: Effort
Image of Corrie Ten Boom
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Collection: Effort
Image of Jeanette Winterson
Only the impossible is worth the effort.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Effort
Image of Sheldon B. Kopp
For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)
- Sheldon B. Kopp
Collection: Effort
Image of Man Ray
An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.
- Man Ray
Collection: Effort
Image of Rajneesh
With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.
- Rajneesh
Collection: Effort
Image of Michael Porter
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.
- Michael Porter
Collection: Effort
Image of John Owen
Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.
- John Owen
Collection: Effort
Image of Jules Renard
I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.
- Jules Renard
Collection: Effort
Image of Denzel Washington
There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig
- Denzel Washington
Collection: Effort
Image of Peter S. Beagle
..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
- Peter S. Beagle
Collection: Effort
Image of Will Rogers
Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.
- Will Rogers
Collection: Effort
Image of Seneca the Younger
Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Effort
Image of Henry Miller
I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.
- Henry Miller
Collection: Effort
Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
Collection: Effort
Image of Lauren DeStefano
I wonder if she has figured out that I'll never love Linden, especially not in the way she does, and that he'll never love anyone the way he loves her. I wonder if she realizes, despite all her efforts to train me, that I can never take her place.
- Lauren DeStefano
Collection: Effort
Image of Deng Xiaoping
In the final analysis, the general principle for our economic development in China is still that formulated by Chairman Mao, that is, to rely mainly on our own efforts with external assistance subsidiary.
- Deng Xiaoping
Collection: Effort
Image of Henri Poincare
But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.
- Henri Poincare
Collection: Effort
Image of Charles M. Schwab
The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.
- Charles M. Schwab
Collection: Effort
Image of Kiera Cass
I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.
- Kiera Cass
Collection: Effort
Image of Seneca the Younger
To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
- Seneca the Younger
Collection: Effort
Image of Henry Rollins
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
Collection: Effort
Image of Daniel Pinchbeck
Through the last centuries, the effort of capitalism has been to take all the things that were human relations and turn them into monetary exchanges.
- Daniel Pinchbeck
Collection: Effort
Image of George Washington
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
- George Washington
Collection: Effort
Image of Moliere
There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.
- Moliere
Collection: Effort
Image of Henry David Thoreau
By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Effort