Effort

Famous quotes containing the word effort:

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

    “... There, there,
    What you complain of, all the nations share.
    Their effort is a mounting ecstasy
    That when it gets too exquisite to bear
    Will find relief in one burst. You shall see.
    That’s what a certain bomb was sent to be.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
    Emma Goldman (1869–1940)