Effort Quotes

But since September 11, we have made every effort to try to work closely with state and local law enforcement.

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.

I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

It's a good team though that works very closely and very well together, and all those people putting that effort in, then I'm sure we will improve dramatically from where we are now as the season goes on.

The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country.

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.