Effort Quotes

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.

You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

If I want to continue to build the kind of effort we have with Do Something, being in a public office would help. I wouldn't rule it out, but it's not something I feel determined to do.

In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

A candidate who tries to steer a path down the middle in an effort to 'win independents' runs the risk of convincing everyone that they have no core values. As much as - or more than - any other voters, independents want to see conviction and authenticity.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.