Effort Quotes

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort.

Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan.

Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it.

If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

Stop wishing & start doing! Your lack of effort won't affect a true hustlers ambition. Perseverance through adversity is key.

Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

Practice means making an effort to keep your mind steady. Yoga is about learning to pay attention. That's what drives transformation.

What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

There has been failure, particularly with the effort to protect our coast and our marsh. And that was the biggest topic of discussion in a very frank meeting we had with the president.

Not a single reform effort in Russia has ever been completed.

If at war, understand what it takes to win: Set a goal, define victory and fully support the effort. Leave no doubt that you respect the troops and appreciate their service.

And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

In yoga practice, over time you use fewer muscles more efficiently. Expansion does require energy, but it should not require a great deal of effort.

Motivation comes from effort.

Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

Pierre [from Dude, Where's My Car?] could be the best thing I've ever done. When you distill it down to a minute and a half of work, that may be my finest effort.

I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

Every great success is an accumulation of thousands of ordinary efforts that no one else sees or appreciates.

Mental development is a by-product of hard work and effort.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.