Effort Quotes
We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.
In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.
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.
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.
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.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.
When your effort is low, you're probably not thinking about the opportunity, you're thinking about the obligation.
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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.
People who get what they want tend to be the ones who make the effort to know what they want.
Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.
We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
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.
To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.
I believe that persistent effort, supported by a character-based foundation, will enable you to get more of the things money will buy and all of the things money won't buy.
The prize and punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore we certainly cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them.
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.
The goal of our life’s effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women.
There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort.
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
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.
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process.
A contemplative should pay equal attention to concentration, energetic effort and equanimity, and not exclusively to one of these factors only.