Genuine Effort Quotes

#1. Genuine effort is success.

Vernon Howard

#2. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

#3. Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Max DePree

#4. Our effort was a serious effort, genuine effort, to open the door for peace, unfortunately, the Security Council is not ready to listen to that message.

Riyad Mansour

#5. The truth is that we have hitherto made no genuine effort to produce forged steel working parts of automobiles of the highest quality. That is one of the reasons why our automobiles have not ranked with those of foreign make.

Charles M. Schwab

#6. Spirit. Approach life with genuine zeal, with vigor and energy. Walk a little faster than average. Read a little more. Try a little harder. Be enthusiastic, even about your thoughts. Give everything you do your every best effort.

Joni Hilton

#7. The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles

Joseph Brodsky

#8. Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

Paul Shaffer

#9. Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Alice Miller

#10. Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

Richard Branson

#11. When a book goes well, it abandons me. I am the most abandoned writer in the world.

Jim Crace

#12. A gift is a gift only when given as a genuine expression of love, not as an effort to cover over past failures.

Gary Chapman

#13. A genuine transformation that results from sustained concerted effort is long lasting because it has a firm foundation.

Dalai Lama

#14. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

Werner Herzog

#15. I think that's why I find him hard to look away from, though, because I've always found guys more attractive when they put less effort into trying to appear attractive.
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Colleen Hoover

#16. If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside.

Cynthia Ozick

#17. I would take responsibility for the fight. (I seemed to always take the blame!)

Malala Yousafzai

#18. The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it.

Bhante Y. Wimala

#19. The girl at the desk sat there smiling sweetly, but he paid no attention to her. If he couldn't find Riley, then maybe he should ask the desk girl out tonight and see if she'd let him fuck her.

Rose Fallen

#20. I love romantic films and love drama. Any film that has romance or romantic element is my comfort.

Rani Mukerji

#21. Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere.

Pope Benedict XVI

#22. Genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, direct experience. For many centuries faith and belief have been confused, and now it takes great effort and exertion to make people understand that faith is true knowledge and not futile beliefs.

Samael Aun Weor

#23. It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine change requires work and self-understanding of the cravings driving behaviours.

Charles Duhigg

#24. What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

David Attenborough

#25. I think mischievous people always there, ... Some kind of perfect world, that is impossible. Accept that reality. (For) those people who have genuine concern about humanity, make some effort-better than none.

Dalai Lama

#26. I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.

Mika.