Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Emma Goldman

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
Emma Goldman

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

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer

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.
Fran Lebowitz

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

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.
Erich Fromm

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm

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

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
George Santayana

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Paul J. Meyer

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Paul J. Meyer

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
Charles Baudelaire