A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
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.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.