Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer… — Oswald Chambers
Despite the previous efforts of Congresses, our addiction to foreign oil, as the President stated, is greater today than ever before. That dependency is a… — Jim Costa
If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a… — John Spence
Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith, your choices, and your efforts — Paul V. Johnson
Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this… — Jim Clyburn
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight… — John Ruskin
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's… — Taisen Deshimaru
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible… — Curt Schilling
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at… — Trip Hawkins
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. No natural boundary seems to be… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct… — Frederic Bastiat
The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago,… — Elizabeth Warren
Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her. — Samuel Adams
It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence,… — Thomas Jefferson
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any… — George Washington
Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I have come to think of… — Georgia O'Keeffe
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with… — Isaac Asimov
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more… — Ray Bradbury
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is… — William Eggleston
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least… — Angela Merkel
Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes… — Anita Desai
Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to… — Albert Bandura
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary… — John Stuart Mill
We are increasing our efforts to attract the right kind of foreign investors through our various agencies. — Hassanal Bolkiah

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