Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“Words like “freedom,” “justice,” “democracy” are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply.”
—James Baldwin (1924–1987)

“Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)