Efforts Quotes
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No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I have made tremendous efforts to work in a darker register and express the sinister and tragic quality of the place, given my natural tendency to work in light and pale tones.
Claude Monet
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Efforts following 9/11 were important. They set a tone. They reminded those who might be tempted to take out their anger on an entire community that such actions were wrong.
Alexander Acosta -
It is not who has the bigger index. We hear a lot about efforts to index all the artifacts of human knowledge, but the actual bulk of human knowledge lives in people's heads.
Bradley Horowitz -
We will use every tool available to pursue fraud against the New York Medicaid program wherever it occurs, ... The criminal and civil sanctions imposed on Heritage and Arnold demonstrate our continuing efforts to prosecute fully any crimes we uncover and return misappropriated funds to the State.
Eliot Spitzer -
In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.
Edgar Allan Poe -
This is a terrible outrage committed by people with no humanity, ... I know that the police are devoting huge efforts to find the perpetrators.
Jack Straw -
Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.
Mother Maribel
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As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is more potent than gold, so will the results of well-directed labors toward the development of man's higher faculties ever outweigh a thousand fold any estimate in the currency of commerce, which man can put upon such efforts.
Edward Miner Gallaudet -
I'm very proud of our kids' effort and I thought both teams left everything on the floor. They forced us to rush some things and they beat us to the ball a couple of times, which I thought was the difference.
J. M. Roberts -
Art's greatest efforts are invariably a timid counterfeit of Nature.
Honore de Balzac -
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
Charles Robert Maturin -
You have to understand what it is that you are better at than anybody else and mercilessly focus your efforts on it.
Andy Grove -
Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.
Andrew W.K.
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We're going to need team efforts, we're going to need each other down the stretch. With 29 games to go, we've got to win more than half of those to give us a better seed in the playoffs. We don't want to settle for the eighth spot. We want to try and get as high as we can.
Allen Iverson -
Music was always in my blood but my dad being a musician made me want to love something else so my efforts went towards sports and dance. I always new in the back of my mind that I wanted to be a performer and not until my life got a little more complicated did music present itself as my only option.
Sierra Swan The Black Eyed Peas -
The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
Petrarch -
Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.
James Loeb -
Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.
Gautama Buddha -
What we should be doing in US is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it.
Bill Clinton
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I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.
Joseph Haydn -
One can only wonder when the advocates of progressive economics will realize that, despite their best efforts, you cannot regulate your way to economic prosperity.
Andrew Puzder -
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
Alex Faickney Osborn -
As we consider expanding options in this state, we must re-double our efforts to make sure that public schools in Tennessee are well-resourced and that Tennessee teachers and principals are the best and most celebrated in the business.
Bill Lee