Efforts Quotes

The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Secondly I would like to make continuous efforts of stabilising cross Strait relations, eventually reaching peace across the Taiwan strait and stability and security in the Asia Pacific region.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.

There is so much to do, and I want to continue my efforts.

Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the efforts and insistence of several governments.

With the recent news that the State of Florida has agreed to purchase 181,000 acres of U.S. Sugar land, we have an historic opportunity for our larger restoration efforts and for the people of Florida. This too will not come without difficult challenges, but it reminds us that anything is possible.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

History will eventually depict as legitimate the efforts of the Iraqi resistance to destabilise and defeat the American occupation forces and their imposed Iraqi collaborationist government.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Ironically, the Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel in the Persian Gulf I mentioned earlier who are fighting terrorism will provide more support indirectly to this war in Iraq than most of the 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there.

I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.

The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals.

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

The conflict in the Middle East needs to be solved for the same reasons. It is necessary to reach a two-states solution, built on international law, for sustainable peace and development, and it can only be achieved through joint efforts by the international community.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.

In the 20 years before Greece end up with the Euro, efforts to improve competitiveness through exchange rate and adjustments resulted only in temporary gains of competitiveness.