Effort Quotes

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

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 as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.

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

Congress, the press, and the bureaucracy too often focus on how much money or effort is spent, rather than whether the money or effort actually achieves the announced goal.

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

I am pleased to see that information campaigns, such as the America's WETLAND effort, are getting the message out, and people are beginning to realize that wetlands loss in Louisiana affects us all.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

I haven't put much effort into my personal life and blithely believe it will turn out all right in the end.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.