Effort Quotes · Page 50

We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.

— Melody Beattie

Sometimes it seems like you'd rather watch me drown, than see your hands get wet.

— Anonymous

I hate when people say that they miss you, but don't make an effort to speak to you or see you.

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

— Brian Tracy

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

— George W. Bush

You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse…

— Frederick Lenz

My parents made every effort to encourage me to pursue anything in life that I enjoyed or found appealing so that I…

— Elliot Knight

We just had a bunch of guys who liked each other, and we worked well together and sacrificed to win ball games.…

— Vernon Law

I love food and don't want to sacrifice my enjoyment to be healthy. You can enjoy food and can be mindful and…

— Austin Aries

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in…

— Virginia Woolf

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to…

— Bryant H. McGill

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent…

— Jamie Drummond

Don't blame me if someone makes an effort to be there for me when you are nowhere to be found. Actions tell…

— Anonymous

Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough…

— Stanley Kunitz

Many writers hate the shilling process, and I understand that. However, it's really the only thing about the publication process you can…

— Hanya Yanagihara

You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody…

— Ayn Rand

Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right…

— Charles A. Beard

Lions don't have to roar. There is power in silence, confidence and persistence. Those who work don't talk and those who talk…

— Les Brown

Like the Roman town grid, the New York plan was laid down on largely empty land, a city designed in advance of…

— Richard Sennett

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

One of the reasons to pick the cancer effort is to demonstrate to people that there's not much beyond our capacity. It…

— Joe Biden

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

— Sextus Propertius

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

— Anonymous

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

— Kim Edwards

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

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

— Allan Lokos

My thing is get downhill, play with energy, show some effort and everything good will take care of itself.

— Christian Wood

“love needs too much help, he said. hate takes care of itself.”

— Charles Bukowski

I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?

— Jacki Weaver

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

— Phillip Lopate

Making films is such a large, collaborative effort and there's so many people who are a part of it.

— KiKi Layne

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.

— Moliere

Goals achieved with little effort are seldom worthwhile or lasting.

— John Wooden

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

— Peter Diamandis