Effort Quotes
But if you do not have the Tao yourself, what business have you spending your time in vain efforts to bring corrupt politicians into the right path?
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.
Poverty is when large efforts produce small results. Wealth is when small efforts produce large results.
You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.
If you make your best effort to be kinder, nurture compassion, make the world a better place, then you can say 'At least I've done my best.
You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.
The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.
You can never judge how the film will be taken; you can only make your best effort, and put out what you feel. How it's read, you never can tell. Or remembered for that matter.
It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
Happiness isn't a one-size-fits-all proposition. You must define what it looks like for you and then make a conscious effort to access whatever gets you to your unique definition of joy.
There has been a concerted effort to frame caring about climate change and the environment as an alternate religion - one that worships the creation rather than the creator, so to speak.
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.
A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
When someone has tried to please you, it is rude, as well as disheartening, to respond by announcing that the effort was a failure.
If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
I've been doing Isha Kriya meditation and love it. Don't get me wrong, it isn't easy or available everyday - but I'm making the effort to stop, sit, breath, and connect.
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
I became a player who goes to a lot of effort while training, who can rely on his will and his mental strengths.
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.
The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.
The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.
Drop dreaming and you are there where you have really been always, but you were never aware. All meditation techniques are just antidream efforts, just dream-negating devices.
You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.
But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.