Effort Quotes

Despite my best efforts, I'm not quite perfect. Let's just say I'm like one of those Hopi blankets where they leave a tiny flaw so as to not affront the Lord.

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.

There's times when you see people climbing and getting success and you start to see, oh, they're starting to really change. So I always just make the effort to be as humble and grateful as possible.

I put a lot of time and effort into the exercise I get, the amount of rest and sleep I get, and the amount I eat. And I think those three things are really kind of my wellness and health foundation.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Just keep trying, and your dreams will come true. But you have to give it all your time, effort, and soul.

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort.

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

It's clear to me now that we've got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future of Iraq.

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last.

America is the one that has led the effort to strengthen NATO and strengthen the front-line states against Russia's pressures.

America is the one that leads the effort to make sure the freedom of navigation in the South China Sea is protected.

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.

The manager's job - the impresario's job - is to preside over the company's efforts to jam so the business runs really well.

All, the intelligent and stupid, diligent and idle, have been swept along on a current of increased output that, in the usual case, owed nothing whatever to their efforts.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

There are only two stimulants to ones best efforts: the fear of punishment, and the hope of reward.

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure.

When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.

Some people there are who, being grown; forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.

When you give total effort - everything you have - the score can never make you a loser. And when you do less, it can't somehow magically turn you into a winner.

Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice.

Acquire peace of mind by making the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

Samir Nasri is well dressed every day. He always makes the effort. Always. I have never seen him look anything but immaculate.

Putting forth the effort to succeed is (tan.ta.mount), tantamount to your success.