It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. – Arnold Bennett Category: Effort
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. – Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Category: Effort
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Category: Effort
They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now. – Swami Venkatesananda Category: Effort
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities. – Robert Conklin Category: Appreciation
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald Category: great
The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. – Clara Zetkin Category: Society
What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? – Jim Murray, Los Angeles Times Category: Homecoming
