If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Mike Schmidt
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.
Mortimer Adler
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature
Arnold Bennett
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass
Emma Goldman
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses
John Fischer
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Angus Wilson
Continuous excellent effort, not maximum strength or superior IQ, is thekey to unlocking your potential as an achiever.
Greg Werner
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
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of effort required to accomplish something! A mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a scarecrow to children and fools and a stimulus to real men.
Samuel Warren
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 Arthur Baldwin
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin