Effort Quotes

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

I believe that anyone can become better,if you put in the effort.

We can live as we were meant to live - simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.

To love another person you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

We must live like angels and produce like the devil!

Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

The only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it.

Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

The conclusion is straightforward : self-control requires attention and effort.

The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

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

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort.

Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

We all naturally want to become successful... we also want to take shortcuts. And it's easy to do so, but you can never take away the effort of hard work and discipline and sacrifice.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

Be exceptional. Make tremendous efforts to be extraordinary. What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Just make sure you do so.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

Through effort you will cross any raging flood, through energy you will pass any sorrow.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

Forget trendy designer labels. Jeans, a sweater or a t-shirt worn under a jacket that seems welded to you. When it's just right, when you don't see the effort, it's irresistible.

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.