Ivor Novello Quotes

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

Ivor Novello

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• I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Time
  • World

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

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Single

• In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • American
  • Effort
  • Filmmaking

• I've learned that if one is arrogant and if something bad happens to him, people won't want him to succeed. They will make more of an effort to bring him down.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Effort
  • Opportunities

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Best
  • Effort

• Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great
  • God
  • Effort

• I went to go see 'Final Destination' which you have to be 17 and over to see and they're like 'Uh, we need to see your I.D.' Here's the really funny thing is that I actually had done my hair and makeup that day. If I don't do my hair and makeup I can understand it but I had actually made an effort to look older.

  

  Kay Panabaker
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Hair

• Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Faith
  • Jesus

• It's really great if people actually want to see something that you've made and you've put a lot of effort into. And that doesn't always happen, and there's not always a rhyme or reason.

  

  Kelly Macdonald
  • People
  • Great
  • Effort

• Even when I was young, with a limited amount of money and exposure, I tried to look my best. I like to follow trends and stand out. I have always had that fashion sense. But with the time, age, money, and experience, I have made a conscious effort to stand out.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• I have somewhat ambivalent feelings about the recognition of individuals when so much of this was a team effort.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Team
  • Effort

• All literature is an effort at the formal character of the epigram.

  

  Delmore Schwartz
  • Character
  • Effort
  • Literature

• If we all make a concerted effort and try to improve the life of someone else, then this world would be a better place to live in.

  

  Alonzo Mourning
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• A winning effort begins with preparation.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Effort
  • Winning
  • Preparation

• I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Christian

• Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Money
  • Basic
  • Traits

• Comedy is here to bring joy to the world, whether you want to hear the curse words or not.

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • World
  • Words
  • Comedy

• I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Today
  • Star
  • Wall

• In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Interview
  • Secretary
  • Syria

• Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Effort