Effort Quotes
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.
A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
A child is a person in whom all possibilities are present - present now at this very moment - not to be educed after many years and efforts manifold on the part of the educator
Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts
Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
Unity must be won, and only the workers, the class-conscious workers themselves can win it - by stubborn and persistent effort.
I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
A cricketer's life is a life of splendid freedom, healthy effort, endless variety, and delightful good fellowship.
We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
If someone wants to be a part of your life, they’ll be there. So don’t bother saving a spot for someone who won’t make an effort to stay.
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty
John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.
People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
The most effective indirect approach is one that lures or startles the opponent into a false move - so that, as in ju-jitsu, his own effort is turned into the lever of his overthrow.
When you're a little different than others, it takes a little more time to fit in. If you really want to be there, there are no ingredients you need other than effort, perseverance and teamwork.
You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.
The true but rare runner's high is a zone that we enter when everything seems to click perfectly, when time stands still, and when we can run almost without effort.
Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.
God can, has and will use anybody who is open to serving Him to convey the gospel. He will bless the efforts of His servants whether they are gifted as evangelizers or not.
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.
Blessings don’t come from outside, but from within. Whatever blessings we receive are the result of our own efforts and positive actions.
I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.