Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 101

Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
 Gerhard Richter
Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
 Fay Weldon
I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.
 Sara Genn
The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Hopefully my greatest achievement will be getting into heaven!
 Tommy McDonald
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
 Anne Carson
I think the work ethic that was established in my family was something very important. If you plant the seed, if you sow sparingly and reap sparingly. If you sow in abundance you'll reap in abundance.
 Lauryn Hill
Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.
 Stuart Wilde
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.
 Marjane Satrapi
The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.
 Taylor Branch
My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.
 T. Harv Eker
The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
 Christine Pelosi
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
 Baron de Montesquieu
sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.
 Corra May Harris
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
 Anne Frank
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
 Stella Benson
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
The idea that one might derive satisfaction from his or her successful work, because that work is ingenious, beautiful, or just pleasing, has become ridiculed.
 Niklaus Wirth
There's a worldwide linking of environmental activists, developmental experts and human rights advocates. And they're using the two frameworks, in particular environmental standards and human rights.
 Mary Robinson