Effort Quotes

In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art.

A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.

A man must rise by his own efforts and walk by faith.

Songs will always become a story in some way. I think it's my strongpoint as a writer musically. I don't shy away from it. It's not really an effort. It's how I write songs.

We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

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

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.

Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

All men are fools, and with every effort they differ only in the degree.

Marketing is the act of inventing the product. The effort of designing it. The craft of producing it. The art of pricing it. The technique of selling it.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

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.

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.

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.

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

Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God.

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

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

A poem begins with a lump in the throat

The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

I am sure that as soon as speech was invented, efforts to suppress and control it began, and that process of suppression continues unabated.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Love is our highest word and the synonym of God.

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

The quality of your play never counts as much as the quality of your effort.

Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.

When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "success mechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better than you could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

Teamwork requires that everyone's efforts flow in a single direction. Feelings of significance happen when a team's energy takes on a life of its own.

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

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.

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it's worked.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.