Effort Quotes

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.

The fact is that between the classes there is a vast gulf that precludes all mutual understanding, and makes simultaneous efforts simply impossible.

Despite our best efforts and our highest hopes, America's long struggle with race is far from finished.

You can bloom wherever you're planted, if you put enough effort into it.

I do support the effort to investigate for crimes, war crimes committed by the Syrians and the Russians and try to hold them accountable.

Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

The last couple relationships I had were long distance. It's not like I can make much of an effort to travel and see anybody. The guy had to do all the work, unfortunately.

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

An effort made with ourselves for the good of others, with the intention of pleasing God alone.

Futures thinking is hard work. Fortunately, you do get better at it with practice. It's worth the effort.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

We're conducting an investigation to understand whether there was any coordination between the Russian efforts and anybody associated with the Trump campaign.

She and Thomas had helped construct the Maze; at the same time she’d exerted a lot of effort to build a wall holding back her emotions.

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death. Why inquire if you already know the answer?

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore, directing everyone else's efforts toward "the one best way."

People always say to me, "What if it doesn't work?" If it doesn't work, we redouble our effort. We're not going to cry like a bunch of babies. We're going to redouble our effort.

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

There's been a 40-year effort on the far right to build up think tanks, academic programs, advocacy groups, to push a particular ideology. That's really where the impact is that people don't see.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

A strategy would be how do we mobilize support for the remnants of the Syrian Free Army, and it might require combat troops to inspire an international effort.

This is something - we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.