Effort Quotes

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

We will never win this war until we understand the effect that Guantanamo Bay has had on the overall war effort. And we'll never get the support of the American people if we can't prove to them that these folks that we're dealing with are not common criminals. We're going to keep them - keep you safe from them.

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role. Maybe I've just done enough of them now where people are like, 'Oh, it's the guy that's in a swirling vortex of despair, send it to Kinnear!' I don't really know, but it does seem to be a recurring theme.

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

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.

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.