Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

The well of your incompleteness runs deep, but make the effort to look away from yourself and to look toward Him.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.

Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind.

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I simply love Malayalam films because they do great cinema, and there is a whole lot of effort that goes into it.

As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

Yeah, I mean I am somebody that makes an effort to go and see a lot of exhibitions, painting, drawing, sculpture.

A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

I don't make a conscious effort to choose any particular genre. If I like the script, I go ahead with the project.

It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.

Your own efforts "did not bring it to pass," only God-but rejoice if God found a use for your efforts in His work.

Barack Obama has injected fresh momentum into efforts - stalled for a decade - to bring about nuclear disarmament.

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.

No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.

You could go through incarnations forever and never become enlightened, unless of course you do something about it.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

In the end you get what you deserve, the amount of effort you put in determines the amount of joy that you receive.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

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