The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas th

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Effort
category

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Category:
Effort

He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Proverb

Category:
Effort

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Effort

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Effort

Random Quotes

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps. – Havelock Ellis

Category:
Suicide

The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Hope

The Bill of Rights was intended to secure freedom of speech – the freedom of speech of members of parliament to speak freely rather than be at threat of… the threat of an over powerful monarch at the time. – William Hague

Category:
Freedom

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. – Sir Winston Churchill

Category:
Humorous