Effort Quotes

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

For the first time federal, state and local bureaus of investigation are coordinating their effort, to serve as eyes and ears and protect us against further attacks.

What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make the effort to straighten out the country, and at the same time they want it to be just and equitable.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

The human spy, in terms of the American espionage effort, had never been terribly pertinent.

I think we need a very, very serious effort, primarily through tax policy to provide incentives and encouragement for people to save and invest and expand their businesses and to create more jobs. The kind of thing we did in the early Reagan years, 30 years ago. I think that's essential.

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first time the agency had done that sort of effort.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.