Andre Gide Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Demand, Teach

• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

• I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

  Andre Gide

  Long, Effort, Crafts

• The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

  Andre Gide

  Effort, Paradise, Sin

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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