Effort Quotes

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.

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

A little bait catches a large fish.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

I'm not so interested in the effort that it takes to have a self-promotional outlook. I believe in being quiet and making my work and just trying to make discoveries and let the painting evolve.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

In the past ABC has made half-hearted efforts or, worse, cosmetic efforts, to do something about news and I wasn't certain about what their real aim was - nor am I now.

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Failure is no shame - but not making the attempt is despicable.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.

You're a doer, because you're prepared to make the necessary effort to translate your dream into action.

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living.

Make a strong and permanent commitment to invest your talents only in pursuits that deserve your best efforts.

The big thing is to make a winning effort. Im not obsessed with wins.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Effort is admirable. Achievement is valuable.

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

I consider Ronald Reagan one of the greatest U.S. presidents since the World War II because of his staunch resistance to Communism and his efforts to defend human rights.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.

Allocating budgets will not suffice. We need to make focused efforts at developing the tribal belt of Gujarat

Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Success is a matter of adjusting one's efforts to obstacles and one's abilities to a service needed by others.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.