Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, Reading Quotes, Effort Quotes

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Reading Quotes , Effort Quotes

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Men Quotes , Effort Quotes

Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Effort Quotes , Mind Quotes

God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Men Quotes , Effort Quotes

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Effort Quotes , World Quotes

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Effort Quotes , Elegance Quotes

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Book Quotes , Effort Quotes

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child. It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same laceration, and the same triumph.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Children Quotes , Effort Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes , Effort Quotes , Meditation Quotes

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Government Quotes , Effort Quotes

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Effort Quotes , Cost Quotes

We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Men Quotes , Effort Quotes

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Effort Quotes

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Effort Quotes , Bird Quotes

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Men Quotes , Effort Quotes

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert E. Howard Quotes , Effort Quotes , Littles Quotes

The Tao of the sage is work without effort.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Work Quotes , Effort Quotes

People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , People Quotes , Effort Quotes

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes , Long Quotes , Effort Quotes