I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
Arnold Palmer
The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
Enrique Jardiel Poncela
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
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 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
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
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
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matiss
In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves
Ruth Goode
Nothing comes out of nothing but something always comes out of everything.
Vikrant Parsai
What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
Bernard Bailyn
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.
Joseph Conrad
In the effort to tell a whole story, to see it whole and clear, I have had to imagine more than I have known.
Wendell Berry
Quality improves with effort according to an exponential curve.
Robert W. Bly