Effort Quotes

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery.

You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

Instead of trying to educate the human race, they should imitate the pedagogues of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, who concentrated their efforts on the education of a single person.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein: 'You're a threat'. And the 9/11 attacks accentuated that threat, as far as I'm concerned.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Why be difficult, when with only a little bit of effort, you can be impossible?

It's not worth having if it comes with no effort.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

The truth is that there are no things for which men will make such herculean efforts as the things of which they know they are unworthy.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

It was a titanic effort.

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts.

If he's choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn't respect your feelings and needs.

Al Gore completely lied about climate change in an effort to make a lot of money.

It takes effort to promote what you do until it becomes habit.

I think it's an accumulation of work over the years, culminating with our work during the Hurricane Katrina-Rita relief effort.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

[Adolf Hitler] tried to make people feel at ease, he made that effort.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

I really worry about the state of the planet and I wish everyone would make a concerned effort not to trash it.

Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.

My fallen heart doesn't know. But I will put effort and pretend that I don't know.

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

While I believe that my lengthy career provides sufficient evidence for consideration of my nomination, I am convinced the efforts to obtain Executive Branch materials and information will continue.

I wouldn't write any kind of book without a contract and an advance. You can't invest that amount of time and effort without one.

You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies.

Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.

Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

A man's whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result.