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“There is an easiness in salvation which is more difficult to us than all our efforts.”

Difficult Effort Salvation Easiness

Author:Simone Weil

“Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.”

Men Inspirational Work Effort Labor Patriotic Grants Disgrace May Day Labour Day Happy Labor Day Labor Day Wishes Funny Labor Day

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain. This is the law and the prophets. Knock and it shall be opened, seek and ye shall find. It is demonstrated; it is a maxim.”

Knows Men Soul Form Law Effort Know How Failing Highest Ideals Prophet Destined Maxims Ideal Man

Book:The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

Source: The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings

“Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.”

Long Running Law Difficult Effort Family Members Complaining Circles Long Runs Conform Preference Family Life Unwritten Personal Preferences

Book:A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

Source: A harvest of stories, from a half century of writing

“It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.”

People Thinking Heart Has Beens Home Able Together Spirit Effort Cat Independence Curious Guardian Emblems

Book:Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

“It is management's job to direct the efforts of all components toward the aim of the system. The first step is clarification: everyone in the organization must understand the aim of the system, and how to direct his efforts toward it. Everyone must understand the damage and loss to the whole organization from a team that seeks to become a selfish, independent, profit center.”

Firsts Whole Jobs Loss Effort Steps Team Direct Organization Aim Independent Management Profit Selfish Damage First Steps Components Clarification

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.”

Men Looks Effort Attention Style Draws Capacity Look Up Paradox Good Sense Eccentricity

Book:Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith

Source: Letters Addressed to the Countess of Ossory, from the Year 1769 to 1797: Now First Printed from Original Mss. Edited, with Notes, by R. Vernon Smith

“Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.”

Humans May Real Purpose Turns Human Beings Effort Attention Teach Honest Morality Draws Bases Realization Being Honest Geometry Magnificence

Author:Madame de Stael

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

Effort United States Dollars Relate

Book:Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy

Source: Noblesse oblige: an enquiry into the identifiable characteristics of the English aristocracy

“Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.”

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.”

Ifs Want Should Believe May War Done Belief Sides Effort Possibility Ought Mountain

Author:Lucretia Mott

“Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?”

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences

“Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.”

Left Effort Acceptance Tides Sheer Avoiding

Author:Fay Weldon

“I thank heaven I have often had it in my power to give help and relief, and this is still my greatest pleasure. If I could choose my sphere of action now, it would be that of the most simple and direct efforts of this kind.”

Ifs Giving Kind Stills Helping Would Be Action Heaven Simple Pleasure Effort Direct Charity If I Could Relief Spheres Greatest Pleasures

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.”

Want Art Body Light Care Pain Suffering Courses Force Effort Danger Divine Proud Genius Lows Weakness Shining Breathe Noble Checks Thee Melancholy Nerves Guests Doom Impatience Gloom Trembling Damp

Book:Tales

Source: Tales

“Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.”

Men Firsts Humans Desire Effort Conditions Human Nature Ambition Spring Capacity Constitution Slavery Enterprise Snaps

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.”

Firsts Matter Effort Dangerous Built Berries Adventurer Generalization

Book:The Journey's Echo: Selections

Source: The Journey's Echo: Selections

“Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that has to do with death and sorrow, to give them a good time at all hazards on the assumption that the ills of life will come soon enough. Young people themselves often resent this attitude on the part of their elders; they feel set aside and belittled as if they were denied the common human experiences.”

Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes

“God must have been engaged from the beginning, and must now be engaged in progressive development, and infinite as God is, he must have been less powerful in the past than he is today.... We may be certain that, through self-effort, the inherent and innate powers of God have been developed to a God-like degree. Thus he has become God.”

May Has Beens Self Today Past Certain Powerful Effort Development Degrees Infinite Engaged Progressive Inherent Innate Power Of God

Author:John Andreas Widtsoe

“The efforts of the majority to destroy every trace of heretical 'blasphemy' proved so successful that, until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi, nearly all our information concerning alternative forms of early Christianity came from the massive orthodox attacks upon them.”

Form Religion Effort Christianity Successful Information Discovery Majority Alternatives Orthodox Massive Blasphemy

Book:The Gnostic Gospels

Source: The Gnostic Gospels

“... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.”

Care Desire Causes Results Effort Anxiety Pressure Photographer Diligence Suspended Degenerates

Author:Paul Caponigro

“Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.”

Has Beens Given Answers Effort Information Program Direct Engaged Nsa Leaks Classified Information

Author:Jay Carney

“Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.”

“You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.”

Ifs Trying Decision Perfect Effort Priorities Right Thing Evaluate Good Decision

Author:Archie Manning

“It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.”

People Ifs Effort Crime Conversation Bother

Author:Shelley Long

“Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.”

Kind Jobs Energy Hours Effort Extras Take Time Time And Energy Extra Effort

Author:America Ferrera

“Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.”

Thinking Needs Has Beens Helping Effort Resources Guilt Sake Be Good Manage Generosity Privileged Stewards Needs Of Others

Author:Andy Stanley

“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.”

May Problem Stuff Wealth Effort Effects Security Function Generosity Generous Appetite Antidote

Author:Andy Stanley

“I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.”

Thinking Mean Happens Artist Individual Effort Streets Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Individual Effort

Author:Conor Oberst

“When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.”

Life Needs Giving Moments Effort Needed Essentials Flow Tasks Present Moment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.”

Should Heart Done Pain Difficult Effort Opinion Difficulty Obscurity

Author:Alice Meynell

“With great effort comes great gratification.”

Effort Gratification Great Effort

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.”

Humans Values Simple Effort Sock Sweaters Knitting Unchanging Scarves Holding Back

Book:At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

“When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.”

Fighting Causes Effort Accepting Effects Danger Increase Originals Illness Mental Illness Inevitable Sickness

Book:The Intimate Journal of George Sand

Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand

“Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.”

Ifs Knows Needs Humans Effort Creative Machines

Author:Dorothea Lange

“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”

Effort Century Periods Taste Concepts Defined Nineteenth Century Good Taste

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.”

Men Looks Persons Home Hate Change Hurt Effort Design Husband Appearance Scream Your Husband Collision

Book:Don't blame the mirror

Source: Don't blame the mirror

“Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.”

Men Made Opportunity Results Effort Equal Equality Equality Of Opportunity

Book:The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man

Source: The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: A poor wise man

“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Knows Trying I Can Moments Body America Lying Force Nations Challenges Effort Careers Greatness Promise Harder Starting Privilege Deeper Your Body Shy Endeavor Dig Deep Troubled Times

Author:Barack Obama

“All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.”

Men Effort Fool Degrees

Author:Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.”

Needs Firsts Humans Two Soul Desire Human Beings Effort Gone Loneliness Manners Consideration Good Man Civilized Inherent Good Manners Courteous Gallantry

Author:Ilka Chase

“Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology shows the futility of past efforts to make a lasting change in manners by an act of will or authority.”

Shows Past Effort Study Generations Authority Accomplish Manners Lasting Customs Superficial Consent Sociology Futility Lasting Change

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.”

Men Giving Made Two Country Given Sex Effort Class Generations Groups Vote Fortune Command Secure Other Countries Suffrage

Author:Carrie Chapman Catt

“Words can be like weapons of destruction: It takes so much effort, and the cooperation of so many people, to build something - and so little effort of so few to tear it down.”

People Littles Effort Tears Weapons Destruction Cooperation

Book:The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

Source: The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue

“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”

Knows Running Effort Creativity Materials Drug Finals Terror Senses Forests Finishing Boundless Hesitation Reluctance Humdrum

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.”

Kind Effort Solitude Married Vocation Married Women

Author:Louise Erdrich

“the point of feminism ... is to win women a wider range of experience. Feminism remains a pretty simple concept, despite repeated - and enormously effective - efforts to dress it up in greasepaint and turn its proponents into gargoyles.”

Turns Winning Simple Effort Feminism Concepts Dresses Remains Despite Range Gargoyles

Book:Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“To strive tirelessly and at all times to reach one's goal - therein lies the secret of success.”

Lying Goal Effort Secret Strive All Time Secret To Success

Author:Anna Pavlova

“It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.”

Ifs Feels Reason Goal Effort Danger Activity Losing Direct Graves Evolve Reaching Cheated Reaching Goals Losing Everything Daily Activities

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“What would you be like if you had white hair and had not given up your principles? It might be wise as you deal with coalition efforts to think about the possibilities of going for fifty years.”

Ifs Thinking Years Might Given White Deals Effort Principles Wise Possibility Hair Fifty Given Up Being Wise Coalitions White Hair

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon