Effort Quotes
I think I may be a better person for having given serious time and thought and effort to gardening.
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.
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.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside.
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity your very effort fills you with activity.
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.
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness.
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
In the mental disturbance and effort of writing, what sustains you is the certainty that on every page there is something left unsaid.
To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort.
People are capable of seeing the deceit they're ensnared in. They just have to make the effort.
I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.
The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.
The possibilities of creative effort connected with the subconscious mind are stupendous and imponderable. They inspire one with awe.
If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.
Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
humility is beyond our reach. if it were a product of reaching, we would instinctively be proud of reaching it. it is a gift.
People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.
When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.
As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.
The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.
Perfectionism is a time waster - 20 percent of the effort you put into any project accomplishes 80 percent of the outcome - so this is a time to ask yourself when good enough is enough and then stop.
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.
I live by the philosophy that beauty starts from within, and I make a conscious effort to fill my body with nutrients through the food I eat.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.