Effort Quotes · Page 27

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

— Bill Vaughan

When people put effort in life, it's more beautiful. But it doesn't come naturally to me.

— Lauren Southern

Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.

— Joseph Murray

What we have to put on the pitch is the effort, running. Then the football comes along.

— Rodri

Make the effort. On the other side of effort is the achievement of your goal.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

I've always tried to write about America. It's very worth a writer's effort.

— John Updike

Why should I make an effort in a relationship when it feels like its never going to be appreciated

— Mr L A J

To meditate with full effort, produces infinity, freedom.

— Frederick Lenz

It didn't happen in the 70s. So I had a whole decade when I was writing these books and maybe there was…

— Judy Blume

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

— Ludwig von Mises

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

— Condoleezza Rice

I don't have a lot of time for people who don't take care of their own problems. Everything that needs to be…

— Devin Townsend

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

— Alan Bishop

I hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts…

— Condoleezza Rice

We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere…

— Nikola Tesla

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense,…

— Horace Walpole

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of…

— Eric Allin Cornell

There had been a number of failures but we weren't going out to ride a failure. And we felt they'd corrected all…

— John Glenn

How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make…

— Daisaku Ikeda

True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our…

— John W. Davis

I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage…

— Allyson Schwartz

It's funny, people often ask me, "Why do you do bike tours where it takes three times the effort and you make…

— Ben Sollee

I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a…

— Theodore von Karman

For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most…

— James Branch Cabell

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

— James Cash Penney

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

— David A. Bednar

I don't expect life to be always easy, I just have to put in my best to make it always seems so.

— Blaze Olamiday

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

— Wesley L Duewel

The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.

— Anonymous

No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.

— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

— Barack Obama

All of my work has been an effort to show that Christianity is superior and not just another mythology.

— Rene Girard

“Don't put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.”

— Anonymous

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

— Walter Benjamin

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

— Fred Saberhagen

Life is precious don't waste it on the things that don't deserve your efforts and time.

— Anonymous

If you actually want something, make an effort. Everything isnt just going to come to you.

— Anonymous

I can always make trouble for who I guard and control the effort I bring.

— Eric Bledsoe

One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.

— Augustus William Hare

An extra effort to reach out to someone means everything.

— Anonymous