Effort Quotes

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

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.

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

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

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

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.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

Effort plus motive equals result.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

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

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.

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

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.

What we have earned by the sweat of our brow, we defend with pride. What we have gained by the accident of birth, we guard with prejudice.

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

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

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

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

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

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.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.