Effort Quotes

Leaders are made, they are not born

We know the utility of prayer from the efforts of the wicked spirits to distract us during the divine office; and we experience the fruit of prayer in the defeat of our enemies.

Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Facility is an obstacle to any creativeness. In any art form. You get a nice effect without effort, sometimes by accident, and you're satisfied; but there's nothing substantial underneath.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Atheist, without God, I look to humankind for sympathy, for love, for hope, for effort, for aid.

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it.

When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

While the crash only took place six months ago, I am convinced we have passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

Only that which is got by hard effort will yield lasting benefit.

That quality is what makes women great collaborators; we understand it's a team effort. Even if it comes from society telling us to be polite.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

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.

Our efforts to help the poor does not mean we're going to eradicate poverty.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.

You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.

Failure is much easier to handle if you just think of it as feedback to guide your next effort.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

Efforts depend on individuals, but results rely on mere conditions.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

I don't chase after things, but I put forward the effort and know the rest of it is out of my hands.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you pay a cruel price.