Effort Quotes

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Much effort, much prosperity.

My own style is one of not much effort.

Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

The brain's calculations do not require our conscious effort, only our attention and our openness to let the information through. Although the brain absorbs universes of information, little is admitted into normal consciousness.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

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

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

We've got to give a quality effort every day and play better.

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.