Quotes on Effort

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

Author: Josef Albers

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

Author: Richard Allen

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

Author: John Ashcroft

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Author: Charles Babbage

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

Author: Roger Bannister

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

Author: John Bardeen

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

Author: Judah Benjamin

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

Author: Paul Berg

It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.

Author: Buffalo Bill

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Author: Sepp Blatter

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

Author: Heston Blumenthal

In an effort to provide my constituents with information on how they can make contributions to a number of relief and humanitarian organizations, I have posted a short list of these groups and contact numbers on my Internet website.

Author: Jo Bonner

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Author: Elizabeth Bowen

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.

Author: Claude Bristol

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Author: John Burns

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Author: James Cain

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

Author: Cab Calloway

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology.

Author: John Cameron

Without bureaus, committees, officials or emissaries to manufacture sentiment in his favor, without intrigue or effort on his part, Grant is the candidate whose supporters have never threatened to bolt.

Author: Roscoe Conkling

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Author: Pierre Coubertin

Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.

Author: Betty Cuthbert

We have exhausted all of our diplomatic effort to get the Iraqis to comply with their own agreements and with international law. Given that... we have got to force them to comply, and we are doing so militarily.

Author: Tom Daschle

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

Author: Ajay Devgan

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.

Author: K. Drexler

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Author: Matt Drudge

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Author: Leo Durocher

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

Author: Lawrence Eagleburger

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

Author: Julius Erving

Much effort, much prosperity.

Author: Euripides

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

Author: Lorrie Fair

One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

Author: Gustave Flaubert

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

Author: Guy Forget

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

Author: Felix Frankfurter

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

Author: Jerome Friedman

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?

Author: Frederick Frieseke

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Author: Erich Fromm

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Author: Sadie Frost

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Author: Jose Gasset

John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort.

Author: Terry Gilliam

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

Author: Emma Goldman

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

Author: Al Goldstein

They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

Author: Harold Greene

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing site.

Author: Bo Gritz

But on this show, it's a good question because in the 35 shows that we've done now, I've really made a consistent effort to really shadow the directors because in many ways they have to be more prepared than feature directors.

Author: Anthony Hall

This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

Author: Daryl Hall

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

Author: Mike Hawkins

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 game customers.

Author: Trip Hawkins

The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.

Author: Joe Henderson

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

Author: Kenny Hickey

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Author: Napolean Hill

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Author: Oliver Holmes

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Author: Horace

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Author: William James

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the effort we put into every step of the journey.

Author: Angela Davis

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Author: Samuel Johnson

Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.

Author: Chuck Jones

I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient.

Author: Bill Joy

Well, we are not doing that film actually. At least I am not at the moment, but we are making an effort to get it done; I don't know whether we'll get the financing for it. The old story we had it, it fell out of place and this and that.

Author: Harvey Keitel

Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

Author: Jahangir Khan

None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.

Author: Nick Lampson

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

Author: Mary Landrieu

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Author: David Lawrence

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Author: Bruce Lee

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.

Author: David Leslie

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Author: Georg Lichtenberg

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

Author: Vince Lombardi

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

Author: James Longstreet

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

Author: Joanna Lumley

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

Author: Thomas Lynch

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

Author: Gavin MacLeod

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Author: Orison Marden

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Author: Orison Marden

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 they can, just differently.

Author: Marlee Matlin

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Author: H. Mencken

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Author: A. Milne

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

Author: Thomas Monson

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.

Author: Anais Nin

Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.

Author: Ivor Novello

Yet, if we accept the solution offered today by this bill to explore and develop for oil on the coastal plain of ANWR, it will be 5 years, at least, and probably closer to 8 before the first barrel of oil flows from that effort.

Author: John Olver

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

Author: William Osler

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Author: Chuck Palahniuk

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Author: Arnold Palmer

The expansion of tobacco cessation centers is an important part of our historic and continuing effort to help smokers quit. The expansion of these centers will give even more New Yorkers the help they need to quit once and for all.

Author: George Pataki

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Author: James Penney

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

Author: Alain Prost

John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection.

Author: George Putnam

It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

Author: Quintilian

I think that we must come together progressively, with the British, the Germans, the Spanish, the Italians and with the new members of the European Union, we must make an effort to forge closer links.

Author: Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Fame is a constant effort.

Author: Jules Renard

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

Author: Branch Rickey

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Author: Jim Rohn

A massive state and federal effort, the likes of which we've never seen is going to be needed. We can do it for tsunami victims half a world away. We can do it for our own citizens.

Author: Al Roker

This is a global effort we're going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It's more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die.

Author: Mitt Romney

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

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Author: Rick Ross

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

Author: John Ruskin

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Author: George Santayana

We live in a dangerous world where rogue nations are developing longer range missiles. We have to make a strong effort at developing defenses against this threat.

Author: Jim Saxton

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

Author: Richard Scott

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

Author: Ernest Shackleton

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet. Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in, all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.

Author: Mark Shields

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

Author: Isaac Singer

It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.

Author: L. Smith

I find it an effort to keep up appearances.

Author: Dusty Springfield

Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.

Author: Steve Spurrier

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

Author: Leland Stanford

I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.

Author: Payne Stewart

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

Author: Rex Stout

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.

Author: Rex Stout

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

Author: Igor Stravinsky

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Author: William Taft

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

Author: Paul Tagliabue

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Author: Emma Thompson

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

Author: Richard Thompson

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.

Author: Bill Toomey

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Author: Simon Travaglia

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Author: Benjamin Tucker

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Author: Denis Waitley

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Author: Sam Waterston

I've been in the league 12 years. To sit on the bench and complain about the way things were, that doesn't get anything done. I don't know. I'm playing for a championship and trying to make the playoffs. My effort has never changed.

Author: Chris Webber

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

Author: Len Wein

You really should not do this job unless you're willing to put in that enormous amount of effort. You should not do the job unless you're willing to take risks. And you shouldn't do the job unless you're willing to lose the job, too.

Author: Anthony Williams

When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.

Author: John Wise

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

Author: Leonard Woolf

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the effort put forth in achieving it.

Author: Maya Singh

Success is the sum of your efforts multiplied by your perseverance.

Author: Sophia Williams

Success is not measured by the outcome, but by the effort put into achieving it.

Author: Sophia Miller

Success is not measured by the outcome, but by the determination and effort put into the journey.

Author: Ryan Johnson

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the effort put forth in achieving it

Author: Sarah Smith

Success is not measured by the outcome, but by the effort put in along the way.

Author: Jenna Nguyen

Success is not an overnight achievement, but a gradual accumulation of small efforts.

Author: Emily Johnson

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the resilience and effort put into achieving it.

Author: Gabrielle Johnson

Success is not defined by the task itself, but by the effort put into it.

Author: Samantha Williams

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra effort.

Author: Sophia Walker

Dream big and work hard, for success is the culmination of determination and perseverance.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Success is not guaranteed, but effort always is.

Author: Jennifer Smith

Success is not defined by the outcome, but rather by the effort put into achieving it

Author: Jasmine Patel

Hard work is the key that opens every door to opportunity.

Author: Sophia Johnson

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the effort put forth in reaching your goals.

Author: Aaliyah Johnson

Success is not guaranteed, but effort will always lead you closer to your goals.

Author: Rachel Johnson

The path to success is paved with determination and sustained effort.

Author: Sarah Jones

Success is not defined by the outcome, but by the effort put in.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Success is not guaranteed, but neither is failure. The only certainty is the effort you put in every step of the way.

Author: Julia Hoffman

Success is not measured by the outcome, but by the effort put into reaching it.

Author: Samantha Reynolds

Life only gives you as much as you are willing to work for.

Author: Sophia Adams

Success only comes to those who are willing to put in the effort - it's not handed out like candy on Halloween.

Author: Maya Johnson