Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

“As Labor is the common burthen of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burthen on to the shoulders of others, is the great, durable, curse of the race.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

“Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry’s haunting curse, the Incomplete!”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)

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