...she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star. - Louisa May Alcott A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. - John Ruskin Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. - Plato Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. - Charles Baudelaire Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. - Charles Baudelaire What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. - Samuel Johnson Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort. - Steven Brust Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it...

Don't stand up too quick. 'Wasted effort since she was able to stand without touching the ceiling.' Must have been a damn small bunch of warriors living here back when. (Carlos) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. - Ted W Engstrom Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. - Neil Gaiman Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well. - Naveen Jain

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. - Mahmoud Abbas Dying isn't like living; it requires no effort at all. - Ann Aguirre He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood. - Sarah Addison Allen And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace. - Hermann Hesse No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. ...

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view is realistic or not, there is no harm in making an effort. - Dalai Lama So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there's some improvement, I could swear he's making an effort to snap every branch we encounter - Suzanne Collins There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort. - Ajay Devgan Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don't work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they'll succeed without ever making an effort. Most people believe that they'll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they've got it half right, because eventually they do wake up. - Thomas A Edison Places change imperceptibly in detail, at least a good deal,' said the Doctor, making an effort to keep up a conversation that plainly w...

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal. - Friedrich Nietzsche I could die today, if I wished, merely by making a little effort, if I could wish, if I could make an effort. But it is just as well to let myself die, quietly, without rushing things. Something must have changed. I will not weigh upon the balance any more, one way or the other. - Samuel Beckett The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity. - D A Carson She remember...

This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. - Bill Rancic Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. - George Sand

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. - Kareem Abduljabbar ...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want to go on living or not. Theirs is the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on this refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods. - Henri Bergson I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. - Joanna Lumley Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, ...

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities. - Liberty Hyde Bailey Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. - Winston Churchill Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region. - Chen Shuibian