"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."

Effort, Right

39

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit."

Exlpore more Effort quotes

"Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Effort, Discipline, Dream, Work

"We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team."

Paul Tagliabue, American Executive

Effort, Saints

"To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle."

William Osler, Canadian Scientist

Effort, Ideals, Struggle, Worth

"Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved."

Lorii Myers, Canadian Author

Effort, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

Effort, Fanaticism

"In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website."

Jo Bonner, American Politician

Effort, Information, Internet, Numbers

"The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes."

Lorrie Fair, American Athlete

Effort,

"The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Effort, Labor, Years

"I find it an effort to keep up appearances."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

Effort,

"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Effort, Perfection, Worth

Explore more quotes by Walter Scott

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

Art

"What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."

Reading

"Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep."

Success

"'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come."

Appearance

"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."

Thinking

"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

Wisdom

"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."

Life

"Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest."

Appearance

"One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name."

Life

"There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."

Religion