Effort Quotes
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The most effort you should expend should be cooking. If you could cook while lying on a couch, that would be perfect.
Liz Tuccillo
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No one can please everyone. Your mental peace is more important. If you are in peace, then others around you will feel peace. So your best effort should be to work on yourself.
Baba Hari Dass
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Never think of any right effort as being fruitless. All right effort bears fruit, whether we see the results or not.
Peace Pilgrim
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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.
Gavin MacLeod
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I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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In any situation that we find in our lives, when there is something that we feel should be better, we must exert effort to try and make it better. So it's the same socially, musically, politically in any department of our lives.
John Coltrane
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Plus l'effort est grand, plus la gloire en est grande.
Pierre Corneille
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There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.
Andy Reid
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I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
Patricia Polacco
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Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.
Ellen G. White
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Let us, each of us, now embrace with solemn duty and awesome joy what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom.
Barack Obama
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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
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Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words.
Wallace Stevens
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My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.
Charles M. Schwab
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Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Idries Shah
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General Atomics, the progenitor of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, started life in 1955 when a major military contractor, General Dynamics, feared that the military hardware market might dry up. It began exploring peacetime uses of atomic energy, but abandoned the effort when cold-war military spending took off.
Charles Duhigg
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Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.
John C. Maxwell
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Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
Jay Parini
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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
Gale Norton
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These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.
Childe Hassam
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We love being told good stories, and we love telling good stories, and all of our energy and our effort and our thought and our passion goes into telling the best story that we can.
Joe Russo
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The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
Kenneth Tynan
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I've never made any effort to hide what happened. I served my time, I've tried to learn and move on.
Victor Salva