Effort Quotes
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya
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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
William Shakespeare
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A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.
Dalai Lama
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Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Ben Carson
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People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it's hard to go out every night or make the effort to meet people in your hometown, if you haven't already met them all. Online there's this infinite possibility of meeting this person who, no matter where they live, you're meant to be with.
Nev Schulman
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We make a significant effort at Oracle to focus the organization on making customers successful in how they deploy Oracle technology and transform their business through IT.
Mark V. Hurd
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Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.
Cory Gardner
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
Ashwin Sanghi
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Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.
Rick Perry
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Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
Napoleon Hill
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You take the good with the bad. But sometimes when you are making an effort to answer everybody's question and request, then you get one like that. It affects how much I look at (fan mail) and how much I send back, but I still do.
Pedro Martinez
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It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.
Ernest Lawrence
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If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.
Romano Prodi
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.
George Haven Putnam
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I wear no makeup in real life. I'm very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I'm very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually.
Eva Green
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You miss me but don't put effort into seeing me.
J Dilla
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.
Angela Duckworth
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You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
George Foreman
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Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
Daniel Kahneman
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Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts.
Willard Libby
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Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There's an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.
Jessica Stockholder
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What I've been doing with my misfit, so-called acting career in film from day one on my first film, 'Spanking The Monkey', is, I've kind of made a concerted effort to hijack my acting career to turn it into film school, because I've always had the blasphemous idea of becoming a reasonably competent filmmaker in my own right some day.
Jeremy Davies
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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