Effort Quotes
The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.
The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.
Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.
A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That’s the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.
The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
The total efforts of the last 20 years of climate policy has likely reduced global emissions by less than 1 percent, or about 250 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world
Each time you fall He'll pick you up. He knows your own efforts are never going to bring you anywhere near perfection
No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
The fact of the matter is that many children see. . . . Most of those who see are considered to be oddballs and every effort is made to correct them.
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all - those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others.
It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.
We have to dedicate our efforts to better the life, the time passed by the worker in the industrial plant. That will be one of our main efforts during the next year.
What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!' With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.
During my election campaign I was not giving out empty promises, but invited every member of society to join the efforts to work for a better life in Lithuania.
It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.
The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.
Tonight was a disappointing effort. I thought we competed the last three quarters but in the first quarter we did not compete, we participated, and that's not acceptable.
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
I learned early on to never walk while I was on the ball field. I ran everywhere I went.
There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.
Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for. In time, you have all answers to all questions.
If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism.
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
(Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them.
Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
While it is OK to give school children prizes for 'effort' - my kids get them all the time - I think international statesmen should probably be held to a higher standard.
It's taken a while for me to convince people that I can do something other than Scully. And it still takes effort.
No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.
It's endlessly interesting to be organizing and hearing possible solutions or thinking of possible solutions and how to put efforts together. It makes everything else boring, actually.
. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort.
Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
The first thing I'd say to women is put aside the guilt. I think we're all genetically programmed to feel guilty for not giving total effort at the job.
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.