Effort Quotes

The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

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

Writing fiction is... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.

My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde, aka Spank, does everything I say, with effort and determination - but he does it for himself. He gets his thrill out of seeing his own results on the football field.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.