Effort Quotes

The Buddha shared his teachings so that everyone, without exception, could reach the same supreme state of liberation that he had attained through practice and effort.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

Talking to celebrities is too much effort. They all think the same.

By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.

A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.

Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.

Designers devote their efforts to change.

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Success is dependant on effort.

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.

Hope is man's inner effort.

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute.

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs.

Take "no" as an encouragement to redouble his efforts, so it was easier to say "yes" right away.

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

It's interesting when you're trying to create a character in animation. It's really a communal effort.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

Can you be serious for two words?" "Not without effort.

I don't think I've ever made a conscious effort to alter the sound. I don't see the point. I have to remain true to how I sing. I'm perfectly happy with what I am. Whatever that is.

Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labour of love bordering on madness.

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort.

Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.

That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.

I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

The U.N. is asking Italy to oversee this effort. And if a government is formed, you're likely to see up to 5,000 Italian troops maybe go in to provide security and also train a Libyan army.

If you then cast a somebody, playing a nobody is always an additional effort. But that was not the reason we cast him. It was because Ben Whishaw delivered exactly what I was hoping for.

I'm really interested in revamping the Supernatural contest, so I'm going to put a lot of effort and energy into that going forward.

Because Jesus came to secure for us what we could never secure for ourselves, life doesn't have to be a tireless effort to establish ourselves, justify ourselves, validate ourselves.

Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

A green economy begins to replace some of the clunking and chugging of ugly machines with the wise effort of beautiful, skilled people. That means more jobs.

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.

It's almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves.

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

Making the effort is quite a pleasure in itself.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure

If we had joined efforts some time ago [with U.S], we could have avoided many problems the world is facing now, I believe.