Effort Quotes

I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think it's a disgrace for the international community that we have allowed so many conflicts to become frozen, and we are not making a serious effort to solve them.

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

The real leadership of the opposition is never, ever gonna do anything but continue to ramp up efforts to stop [Donald] Trump or destroy Trump.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise.

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

Never follow your dreams. Follow your effort.

We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

The bottom line is that you will not lose fat effectively with exercise-driven weight-loss efforts unless your eating habits moderate insulin production.