Albert Einstein Quotes About Effort

• The effort to strive for truth has to precede all
  other efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Priorities, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.452, Princeton University Press

• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Art, Kindness, Men

  "Mein Weltbild". Book by Albert Einstein, 1931.

• One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Goal, Effort

  "Can we make ourselves more intelligent?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2014.

• The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts — possessions, outward success, luxury—have always seemed to me contemptible.

  Albert Einstein

  Beauty, Gratitude, Cheer

  "Ideas And Opinions".

• Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Respect

• The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

  Albert Einstein

  Effort, Goes On, Way

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.20, St. Martin's Press

• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

  Albert Einstein

  Sweet, Math, Effort

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.8, Open Road Media

• ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

  Albert Einstein

  Educational, Hands, Order

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.26, Open Road Media

• My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Hard Work, Science

• The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself ... The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

  Albert Einstein

  Perseverance, Religious, Hard Work

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

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Effort, Letters

• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Knowledge, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

• The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.

  Albert Einstein

  Luxury, Effort, Superficial

• Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Effort, Chiefs

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