Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?... You carry your fortune in your own hand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

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