Effort Quotes

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Bo Gritz
- Team
- Effort
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

E. O. Wilson
- Time
- World
- Real

At the same time, the daughters, in adulthood, must also make the effort to really know their mothers—which many daughters do not—in order to understand what forces shaped those mothers. These daughters need to discover what torment may have unwittingly informed their mothers’ parental choices, and to see their mothers as composites of strengths and weaknesses, rather than as all good or all bad.

Victoria Secunda
- Time
- Good
- May
Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

John Grant
- Time
- Long
- Feeling
Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.

Jerry Reinsdorf
- People
- Long
- Today
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore
- Nature
- Earth
- Heaven
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.

Camille Claudel
- Money
- Effort
- Successful
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Paul J. Meyer