Effort Quotes

Plans get you into things, but you got to work your way out.

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

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.

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

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.

If you will make the necessary effort you can develop any talent.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

If we do it, if we work to achieve all this [cultural exchange with Japan], we can and should talk about joint efforts toward ensuring international security, and not only in the Far East.

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.

Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.

We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.

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.

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

As an entrepreneur you have responsibilities in trying to operate well in what you have to do. There is a positive effect if you end up doing that. That's where I try to spend most of my efforts.

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

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.

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

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.

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.

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.

I'm not one that just throws music out there to keep it coming, and all that. I believe in the craft, and the time it takes to really nurture something and put a lot of effort into the details.

Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Michael Jackson's charity efforts? Mmm. I'm sure they have nothing to do with his molestation charges.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish demands from the fisherman

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.