Effort Quotes · Page 37

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.”

— Herman Melville

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

— Igor Stravinsky

“Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.”

— Allan Lokos

I do not speak Malayalam and am putting strenuous effort in developing command over the language.

— Sherlyn Chopra

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

Winning is not everything - but making the effort to win was... If you can't accept losing, you can't win.

— Vince Lombardi

If someone loves you, you wouldnt have to beg them to stay, they'd know that's where they belong

— Anonymous

The best things take effort. With all our talk about God given gifts, weve convinced kids that if youre good at something,…

— ANNA QUINDLEN Novelist In O The Oprah Magazine

Any gathering of people requires leadership to cohere, to achieve its potential contribution. What is not needed is a "boss" of yore,…

— James M Strock

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community…

— Mel Carnahan

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more…

— Denis Waitley

I know I need to exercise. For some people, exercise is like breathing; for others, like me, it takes effort. Exercising is…

— Al Roker

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I think clear heads will prevail and the correct enemy will be identified, political enemy will be identified, and efforts will come…

— Rush Limbaugh

If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if…

— Pauline Kael

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories…

— Charles de Lint

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what were not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes…

— Martha Beck

There are films that look very interesting when on paper, but things change while shooting. At times, things changed during post-production, and…

— Kartik Aaryan

Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'Mork & Mindy' - it takes no effort at all to conjure, physically, the profound excitement I…

— Paul F. Tompkins

If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making every effort,…

— Andrea Bocelli

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I wanted to be a professional fighter. I wanted to become a champion one day. And that made me work hard and…

— Vicente Luque

“Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?”

— Kim Edwards

It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

— Michael Josephson

“The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It takes great effort to build something, but it only takes an instant to destroy it.

— Senora Roy

I want people to appreciate all the time and effort that I put into my art and my music.

— Tierra Whack

If someone wants to be in your life , they'll make effort to be in it

— Spido

I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

— Narendra Modi

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.

— William Arthur Ward

Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.

— Gustave Flaubert

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

— Henry James

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

— Ernest Shackleton