Effort Quotes

4928 Effort quotes by 2949 unique authors

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and… — Jeremy Lin
I had to learn how to give my best effort to God and trust him with the results. I have to learn to have enough… — Jeremy Lin
Some argue that our success is short-lived and temporary. So, we now need to make efforts to constantly expand the player base by offering services… — Satoru Iwata
We might compare each day's decisions with the work of steering a boat. Our efforts will result in nebulous confusion if we make a wrong… — Hideo Kojima
It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and… — Etienne de La Boetie
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness… — G. Campbell Morgan
Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself. — Daisaku Ikeda
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway… — Daisaku Ikeda
We must put together countries that produce drugs, countries that traffic, and countries that consume, and through this multilateral effort really stop the growing of… — Vicente Fox
The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America,… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism. — Maxwell Maltz
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane
The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. — Rose Wilder Lane
What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest… — Tony Dungy
The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Â Anyone could give that effort… — Tony Dungy
It is not good to settle into a set of opinions. It is a mistake to put forth effort and obtain some understanding and then… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many… — Wayne Dyer
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be… — Samuel Smiles
The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad,… — Mortimer Adler
No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to… — Henry David Thoreau
Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has… — Elaine L. Jack
The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if… — David Starr Jordan
There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely, muscles and vessel that are… — Unknown Author
Mathematical study and research are very suggestive of mountaineering. Whymper made several efforts before he climbed the Matterhorn in the 1860's and even then it… — Louis J. Mordell

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