Effort Quotes
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Technically he is perfect and he plays so naturally, almost without effort. It's like when Roger Federer plays tennis, he barely sweats.
Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.
Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working so many hours.
The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort.
Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.
It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
In the end, trying to be perfect is the unconscious social effort to please ourselves by pleasing these others.
God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.
If we think it takes a lot of effort and hard work to get what we want, then our life is going to be about struggle.
What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.
Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.
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.
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.
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.
Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.
Impossible is just the possible that someone has not put enough effort to make it come true.
Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
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.
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.
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.
Art, not unlike raising children... may entail much sacrifice and periods of despair, but, with luck, the effort will produce something that outlives you.
Success is measured simply by the amount of effort we put forth, in conquering our objectives.
I am extremely proud of my service with the government and my efforts to help safeguard public health and protect our country against the scourge of offensive biological warfare.
I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued.
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
What I care the most is what I can do for people. I am not into it for recognition; if it comes it will happen out of my own effort.
The bloody solution of the crisis, the effort for the destruction of the enemy's forces, is the first-born son of war.
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.
Those who have the most, who earn the most, must give an example, because that is important for Spain's collective effort.
Successful investors must temper the arrogance of taking a stand with a large dose of humility, accepting that despite their efforts and care, they may in fact be wrong.
Edify a person in advance for the positive traits you want him or her to have, and you'll find them making a concerted effort to live up to your praise.
Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.
Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.
Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.
I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.
