Effort Quotes

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.

Consistent effort is a consistent challenge.

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.

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

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.

Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.

Superiority and success doesn't favor good effort or self-esteem... The mentally precise and physically fit win, while the mediocre and obtuse take solace in hopeful cliches.

Happiness is not merely money, which is fun for effort and achievement

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

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.

You might be a redneck if in an effort to watch your cholesterol, you eat Spam Lite.

Resisting the powers that be, we are keeping things from getting worse than they otherwise might be. And that effort is very much worthwhile.

The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used. It saw itself as part of the war effort.

Effort is its own reward if you allow it to be.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That Dedication Took A Tremendous Amount Of Effort.

Almost nobody travels willingly from sameness to sameness and repetition to repetition, even if the physical effort required is trivial.

The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through these 'walls around art.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on.

We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.

I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

There's enough hate in the world. I command you to love. And you have to make an effort.

It may be that this autobiography [Aimee Semple McPherson's] is set down in sincerity, frankness, and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.

The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.

Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Ironically, many of people, including Osama bin Laden and the mujahedeen, were, in fact, nourished by the United States in the early eighties in its efforts to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.