Effort Quotes & Sayings
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Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice. — John Wooden
If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal — Paul Twitchell
But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into. — Donald Glover
I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden
You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. — Mark Twain
Men will get no more out of life than they put into it. — William J.H. Boetcker
No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true — Lady Gaga
I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day. — Yayoi Kusama
From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future. — Martha Gellhorn
Prayer for the work will soon arouse your own sympathy and effort. — D.L. Moody
The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. — John Ruskin
I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe. — Murray Gell-Mann
What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well. — Joe Hyams
She sincerely wishes success, for her new life, and intends that no failure of effort, temper, or spirits on her part will jeopardise it. — Jude Morgan
Put fourth your best effort in whatever you do...it may be your one and only shot. — Jerry Gladstone
A good marriage takes effort, and honesty is a definite prerequisite. — Julie Garwood
Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living. — Michael Porter
Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. — Arnold Palmer
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster
Yes, and though watching tennis isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment. — Claudia Rankine
Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort. — Anodea Judith
Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things. — Marty Rubin
Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana
All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction. — Yi-Fu Tuan
Truth and effort may increase human worth
But they are not enough to make us whole;
Only love can complete us. — Ilchi Lee
Effort is between you and you. — Ray Lewis
Without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that — R.A. Salvatore
Ironically, we often spend a great deal of time and effort trying to control our external conditions, while letting our internal reactions run wild. — Gyalwa Dokhampa
Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. — Peter Thomas
The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few. — Dalai Lama XIV
It takes almost as much effort to NOT do something, as it does to do it. — Mani S. Sivasubramanian
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one. — Marina Abramovic
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. — Jack Nicholson
CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. — James Allen
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort. — A.J. Ayer
There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well. — Sam Altman
Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier. — Gordon B. Hinckley
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston S. Churchill
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish. — Vivienne Westwood
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort. — Leonardo Da Vinci
Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. — Donna Karan
One thing we can all control is effort — Mark Cuban
I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way. — John Legend
It was an effort not to peek over her shoulder. Don't you even dare, a voice hissed in her head. — Sarah J. Maas
A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He — Maya Angelou
It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values. — David Archuleta
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort. — Jostein Gaarder
A winning effort begins with preparation. — Joe Gibbs
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. — Charles Dickens
Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy. — Nick Lachey
I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. — Barack Obama
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort. — Vijay Krishna
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. — Eliezer Yudkowsky
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P.D. Ouspensky
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. — Mahatma Gandhi
Don't follow your passions; follow your effort. It will lead you to your passions and to success. — Brant Cooper
Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. — Andrew Young
The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato
Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff. — Chris Hardwick
Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort — Manoj Arora
For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. — Robert E.Lee
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. — Jose Bergamin
It takes effort and concern to really think about things. — Sam Owen
God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis
Don't expect front row seats if you're giving nosebleed effort. — Eric Thomas
With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. — Rajneesh
The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. — William Shakespeare
There is only One Man Playing your Game, You! — Vineet Raj Kapoor
I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort. — Dennis Miller
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect. — Anthony Pettis
It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca The Younger
I can sing fine and I can play guitar fine, but put 'em together and it becomes a thoughtful effort. — Jerry Cantrell
No one succeeds without effort ... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. — Ramana Maharshi
Companies fail for lack of brains and effort. — Mark Cuban
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford
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. — Summer Glau
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. — Theodore Roosevelt
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon
It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness — Ruby Wax
A bit of conversational sex makes a pleasant climate for creative effort ... — Anita Loos
It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard. — Alexandra Roach
Do not close your heart against all my efforts to help you ... — Charles Dickens
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. — Elbert Hubbard
Which is more important to success - talent or effort? Americans — Angela Duckworth
You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome. — Bryant McGill
Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else. — Gary Player
The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. — Hua Ching Ni
I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel, — Anwar Ibrahim
When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. — Rajneesh
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. — Valerie Jarrett
Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others. — Carson Cistulli
We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods. — Simon Toyne
Prayer needs no speech. It is itself independent of any sensuous effort. I — Mahatma Gandhi
