Sigmund Freud Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  Sigmund Freud, Ernst L. Freud (1960). “Letters of Sigmund Freud”, p.258, Courier Corporation

• Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  Sigmund Freud

  Long, Effort, Feelings

• To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

  Sigmund Freud

  Best Effort, Honest, Humans

• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Goal

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

• The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.

  Sigmund Freud

  Real, Break Through, Effort

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

  Sigmund Freud

  Effort, Affection, Conscious

• In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

  Sigmund Freud

  Effort, Soul, Age

  "Freud and Moses: The Long Journey Home". Book by Emanuel Rice, p. 25, quoting Letter to Dr. David Feuchtwang (1931), 1990.

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