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)