Dorothy Day Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

  Dorothy Day

  People, Effort, Deeds

• One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

  Dorothy Day

  Time, People, Evil

• We must always aim for the impossible; if we lower our goal, we also diminish our effort.

  Dorothy Day

  Goal, Effort, Impossible

• There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

  Dorothy Day

  Hate, Effort, World

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