Effort Quotes

An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to take breath amid effort to forge a better world.

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn’t require much effort.

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Man is made for error; it enters his mind naturally, and he discovers a few truths only with the greatest effort.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

Whenever you make a big effort and take risks, getting good results and points is very rewarding.

You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.

Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally lazy.

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

Making an effort is in your hands. Giving 100% is in your hands.

I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.

All history is man's efforts to realise ideals.

Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

Your own beliefs are selecting your genes, and if you don't have the right genes to handle the stress that your in, your belief will rewrite your genes in an effort to do so.

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.

Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.

Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Act because you need to act