Effort Quotes

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.

You ought to make every effort to free yourselves even from venial sin, and to do what is most perfect.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

I do have concerns about the current efforts to restructure our nation's intelligence community.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

This obstinate will to personal happiness is the cause of unrest and division in your soul. Give it up and work against it: the rest will be given you without effort.

I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in.

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

The only true failure is failure to try.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

Doing the little things can make a big difference.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp.

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Freedom is not an individual effort. Yours comes only when you grant others theirs

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote.

Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

The key that unlocks your greatness is deliberate, disciplined and consistent effort.

Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

We've begin a nationwide effort to remove criminal aliens, gang members, drug dealers and others who pose a threat to public safety.