Effort Quotes
Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away.
Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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.
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.
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 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.
No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort.
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
Actually I never make a mistake, because it takes a huge effort for me to make a mistake.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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.
Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.
Please don't nag yourself with thoughts of failure. Do not set goals far beyond your capacity to achieve. Simply do what you can do, in the best way you know, and the Lord will accept of your effort.
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe.
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.
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.
Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go.
Keeping quiet means being without any techniques, effort or intention to meditate... not following the thought stream.
I've never made a conscious effort to do anything about my psychological side. I just try to think positively and enjoy it.
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
I was at the forefront of the effort to pass $15 minimum wage in Seattle, and have been collaborating with the people who are trying to make that happen across the country.
No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.
One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!
Don't worry about what you can't control. Our focus and energy needs to be on the things we CAN control. Attitude, effort, focus- these are the things we can control.
The scale and grandeur of the Russian effort mark it as the greatest military achievement in all history.
Success requires first expending 10 units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce 10 units of results with each unit of effort.
The best conducting technique is that which achieves the maximum musical result with the minimum effort. The only general rule is to infuse all gestures with precision, clarity, and vitality.