Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

“Quickness comes from long sustained effort after rightness, and comes unsought. It never comes from effort after quickness.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
—William James (1842–1910)