Effort Quotes
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. (Quote by - Jose Ortega Y Gasset)
In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself. (Quote by - Henry A. Wallace)
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. (Quote by - Joseph de Maistre)
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. (Quote by - Anthony Robbins)
Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations. (Quote by - Justin Timberlake)
In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves. (Quote by - Ruth Goode)
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet. (Quote by - Paul Cellucci)
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent; and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day. (Quote by - Jesse Barfield)
You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset. (Quote by - Tom Hopkins)
Nothing can come of nothing. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. (Quote by - Bible)
There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas. (Quote by - Jerry Falwell)
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted. (Quote by - Charles Babbage)
Man stands for long time with mouth open before roast duck flies in. (Quote by - Chinese Saying)
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live. (Quote by - Anais Nin )
Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience. (Quote by - Harold Ruopp)
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all. (Quote by - Barbara Ehrenreich)
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilisation of our efforts. (Quote by - Ted W Engstrom)
The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble. (Quote by - Elias Canetti )
Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each rain-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe. (Quote by - Charles Mackay)
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. (Quote by - Leo Durocher)
When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you. (Quote by - Kylie Minogue)
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. (Quote by - George Sand)
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes. (Quote by - Lorrie Fair )
Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. (Quote by - Maximilien Robespierre)
Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal. (Quote by - Donald Rumsfeld)
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. (Quote by - Duke Snider)
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it. (Quote by - Frank A Clark)
There's no ceiling on effort! (Quote by - Harvey C. Fruehauf)
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort. (Quote by - Chanakya)
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection. (Quote by - Albert Ellis)
There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway. (Quote by - Mark Burnett)
Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible. (Quote by - Alain Prost )
The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work. (Quote by - Robert A. Taft)
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. (Quote by - J.G. Holland)
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. (Quote by - Joe Pantoliano )
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. (Quote by - Jack Abramoff )
Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all. (Quote by - Sam Ewing)
One may go a long way after one is tired. (Quote by - French Proverb)
If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way. (Quote by - M C Hammer)
Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody. (Quote by - Rory Bremner)
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)
No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation. (Quote by - Hirohito)
It's not enough to be busy. The question is: What are we busy about? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. (Quote by - Hermann Ebbinghaus)
Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort. (Quote by - Emma Thompson )
Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor. (Quote by - Ulysses S. Grant)
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. (Quote by - George Santayana)
Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. (Quote by - Plato)
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. (Quote by - Thomas Malthus )
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. (Quote by - Robert Falcon Scott)
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. (Quote by - Milan Kundera)
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. (Quote by - Tracy Kidder)
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully. (Quote by - Jo Brand)
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Being involved in the Ashes was something special, a great thing. It was a real team effort. As for Vaughany, leading us was outstanding. (Quote by - Andrew Flintoff)
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months. (Quote by - Brandon Routh )
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort. (Quote by - Pierre de Coubertin )
I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort. (Quote by - Heston Blumenthal)
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus. (Quote by - Robert Casey )
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Success is dependent on effort. (Quote by - Sophocles)
A winning effort begins with preparation. (Quote by - Joe Gibbs)
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. (Quote by - John Bardeen)
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win -- if you don't you won t. (Quote by - Bruce Jenner)
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Happiness is a byproduct of an effort to make someone else happy. (Quote by - Gretta Brooker Palmer)
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. (Quote by - Alvin Ailey)
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin )
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work. (Quote by - Eddie Murphy)
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg )
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done. (Quote by - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar )
To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. (Quote by - Analects Confucius)
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. (Quote by - Lucille Ball)
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more. (Quote by - H. W. Dresses)
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort. (Quote by - Henry Rollins )
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. (Quote by - John D. Rockefeller)
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. (Quote by - Rem Koolhaas)
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead. (Quote by - William James)
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV. (Quote by - Hugh Mackay)
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
To come to India and draw 1-1 with such a formidable side was a great effort for our lads. (Quote by - Andrew Flintoff)
Much effort, much prosperity. (Quote by - Euripides)
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination. (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle)
Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires. (Quote by - Chuck Jones )
Fame is a constant effort. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)
The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers. (Quote by - Ernest Thompson Seton)
Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort. (Quote by - Naomi Campbell)
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire )
I finally decided one day, reading science fiction magazines of the time, I could do at least as well as some of these people are doing. So I finally made a serious effort. (Quote by - Fred Saberhagen)
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. (Quote by - Clive James)
The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort. (Quote by - Simon Travaglia)
The reward of eternal life requires effort. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)
Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains. (Quote by - Jane Ellice Hopkins)
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. (Quote by - Mason Cooley )
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
We must find a way, or we will make one. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. (Quote by - Roger Bannister)
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top. (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy. (Quote by - Leo F. Buscaglia)
The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task. (Quote by - Buddha)
Further, science is a collaborative effort. (Quote by - John Bardeen )
Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
He needn't reach the stars.. stars' light reaches him.. He needn't climb to God. Inside him .. Elohim. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish. (Quote by - Vivienne Westwood)
Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
It is always the start that requires the greatest effort. (Quote by - James Cash Penney)
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. (Quote by - Mike Schmidt)
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. (Quote by - Ernest Shackleton )
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be. (Quote by - Bruce Lee )
Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. (Quote by - Betty Cuthbert)
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. (Quote by - William James)
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there. (Quote by - Payne Stewart)
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. (Quote by - American Proverb)
I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about. (Quote by - A. L. Williams)
The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature (Quote by - Arnold Bennett)
The greater the effort, the greater the glory. (Quote by - Pierre Corneille)
If a man has done his best, what else is there? (Quote by - George S. Patton)
But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement. (Quote by - Robert Mueller)
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies. (Quote by - Taylor Branch)
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. (Quote by - Kenneth Tynan)
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. (Quote by - Ramana Maharshi)
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. (Quote by - Georges Guynemer)
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. (Quote by - Henri Matiss)
There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended. (Quote by - James Longstreet)
Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. (Quote by - Frank Mcgee)
I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world. (Quote by - Mahesh Bhatt)
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year. (Quote by - Mark Messier)
Mentally I'm wondering 'Can England get up again after such a fantastic effort?' (Quote by - Bob Woolmer)
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. (Quote by - E. O. Wilson )
Painting is the effort to produce order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. (Quote by - Otto Dix)
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen. (Quote by - Sarah Brown)
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times. (Quote by - Cab Calloway)
What we have seen is an effort to emulate the Blair era, but a failure to do so. (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws (Quote by - Remy de Gourmont)
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art. (Quote by - Jerome Bruner )
One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply. (Quote by - Denis Waitley )
On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson )
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there. (Quote by - Max Lerner)
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. (Quote by - Lydia Maria Child)
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works. (Quote by - Alexandre Dumas)
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort. (Quote by - Vinton Cerf)
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose. (Quote by - Gordie Howe)
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort. (Quote by - Neil Gaiman)
There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist. (Quote by - Jackie Cooper )
Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. (Quote by - )
The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual. (Quote by - Vince Lombardi)
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock. (Quote by - Birch Bayh)
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
There's no taking trout with dry breeches. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing well. (Quote by - Proverb)
People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way. (Quote by - H. Janicki)
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires. (Quote by - Bill Toomey)
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
No one knows what he can do till he tries. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. (Quote by - George Santayana)
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. (Quote by - Patanjali)
If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do. (Quote by - Andrew Shue)
Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing. (Quote by - Daniel Goleman)
Many a man never fails because he never tries. (Quote by - Norman Macewan)
The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves. (Quote by - Garth Henrichs)
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. (Quote by - Heraclitus)
To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. (Quote by - Nora Roberts)
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer )
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem. (Quote by - Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is. (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. (Quote by - Walter Payton)
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. (Quote by - James A. Garfield)
As far as I'm concerned, that incident and Mark Cueto's effort from Charlie Hodgson's cross-field kick that led to what looked like a good try were the two key elements in the game. (Quote by - Josh Lewsey)
I find it an effort to keep up appearances. (Quote by - Dusty Springfield)
I'm pleased with the week. It wasn't such a bad effort in getting to the final and playing five matches in five days. (Quote by - Mary Pierce)
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent. (Quote by - Aldrich Ames)
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
If you can walk, you can run. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. (Quote by - Paul Nurse)
Interestingly, the American Embassy mentioned that our efficient relief effort has significantly improved the image of the United States among the Pakistani people. (Quote by - Jon Porter)
It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was. (Quote by - Buffalo Bill)
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually. (Quote by - Barney Frank)
If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping. (Quote by - Ada Teixeira)
For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. (Quote by - Shunryu Suzuka)
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. (Quote by - Denis Waitley)
Our batters, and especially our bowlers in the heat - it has been a real team effort. (Quote by - Michael Vaughan)
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest. (Quote by - P. D. James)
Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too. (Quote by - Janet Guthrie)
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Quote by - Beverly Sills)
In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. (Quote by - James Allen)
Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. (Quote by - Swami Sivananda)
If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. (Quote by - Denzel Washington)
We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song. (Quote by - Adam Jones)
One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. (Quote by - Edward H. Harriman)
Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. (Quote by - David O. Mckay)
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
Great effort springs naturally from great attitude. (Quote by - Pat Riley)
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. (Quote by - Stephen Leacock)
Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm. (Quote by - Sidney J. Phillips)
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part. (Quote by - Claude Debussy)
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Quote by - Emile Zola)
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. (Quote by - Michael Winner)
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder. (Quote by - Pope John I)
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
The difference last year was so small - it was a symbolic gesture for the last couple of years - but finally the club have realised it's not worth the effort to maintain it. (Quote by - Peter Fleming)
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses (Quote by - John Fischer)
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill )
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame. (Quote by - Bo Bennett )
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. (Quote by - Joanna Lumley)
When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing. (Quote by - Enrique Jardiel Poncela)
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. (Quote by - William Osler)
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter. (Quote by - Mortimer Adler )
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. (Quote by - Chinua Achebe)
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. (Quote by - Paul J. Meyer)
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down. (Quote by - Jack Johnson )
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle. (Quote by - Linus Torvalds)
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! (Quote by - Robert Browning)
In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals. (Quote by - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best. (Quote by - William Danforth)
A decision of the courts decided that the game of golf may be played on a Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. (Quote by - Stephen Butler Leacock)
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died. (Quote by - William Faulkner)
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age (Quote by - Gloria Pitzer)
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. (Quote by - James A. Baldwin)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt )
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. (Quote by - Jesse Owens)
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others. (Quote by - Josef Albers)
Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. (Quote by - Horace )
Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
It's always hard because some of the girls on tour these days are so tough that trying to break their game is a real effort and hard work. (Quote by - Dominique Van Roost)
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name. (Quote by - A. A. Milne)
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. (Quote by - Heywood Hale Broun)
Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
Now I know, a refuge never grows from a chin in the hand and a thoughtful pose Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose. (Quote by - Indigo Girls)
If a man does his best, what else is there? (Quote by - Jason Kidd)
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov)
Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little. (Quote by - Madeleine Stowe)
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. (Quote by - Charles Schwab)
Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day. (Quote by - Bruce Jenner)
Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace. (Quote by - Herodotus)
It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq. (Quote by - John Abizaid )
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles. (Quote by - Baron Pierre De Coubertin)
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. (Quote by - Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall)
