If You Don't Make The Effort Quotes

#1. I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

Gail Simmons

#2. Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

Taufik Hidayat

#3. We don't learn to love each other well in the easy moments. Anyone is good company at a cocktail party. But love is born when we misunderstand one another and make it right, when we cry in the kitchen, when we show up uninvited with magazines and granola bars, in an effort to say, I love you.

Shauna Niequist

#4. In a world of beings who don't exist, who self-destruct and erase themselves, perhaps one should make a valiant effort to at least draw oneself. Maybe that's where all the sex comes from- to feel real.

Luisa Valenzuela

#5. I don't make a concerted effort to distinguish myself as Duncan D. Hunter versus Duncan Hunter. I just do my own thing. That's good enough for me.

Duncan D. Hunter

#6. Those places I don't understand, just doing bad food. It takes some doing. Making good pasta is so much easier than making bad stuff. It actually takes quite an effort to make poor linguine pomodora.

Anthony Bourdain

#7. Ideas don't make money, effort does.

Mike Michalowicz

#8. It's just a crime that people don't take the time and make the effort to have a conversation if it's bothering them that much.

Shelley Long

#9. Don't make the effort to appeal to logic and reasoning all the time; very few people can relate to that. Appeal to emotions instead; everyone, at least, can relate to that.

Ufuoma Apoki

#10. Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

John Wooden

#11. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

Stephen R. Covey

#12. As you feel bad, and don't make any effort to change your thoughts and feel better, you are in effect saying, "Bring me more circumstances that will make me feel bad. Bring it on!

Rhonda Byrne

#13. I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

Vanessa Carlton

#14. I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

Greg Kinnear

#15. When you come to America, it's a very serious thing. It's not like you arrive and they say, 'Hey, come on! Do movies!' I can't just be hopping around. I have to focus and be still and make sure that I put the time and effort in. Because if I don't, I could lose it like that.

Maggie Q

#16. Really, you might make an effort. Honestly, I don't know what's the matter with all of you!
I do, Tiffany thought. You're like a dog worrying sheep all the time. You don't give them time to obey you and you don't let them know when they've done things right. You just keep barking.

Terry Pratchett

#17. We don't have to be superstars or win championships ... . All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

John Wooden

#18. You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq.

John F. Kerry

#19. I like to go back to Chinese film-making from time to time. I don't think I can make Chinese films back to back; it's such a big effort. I'd have to take a very long break.

Ang Lee

#20. My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.

James Salter

#21. If a guy does us wrong the week before, and he does something the next week where he makes an effort to make it right, then I pretty much will let that go. You don't forget about it, but just seeing that the guy makes an effort the next week means a lot.

Tony Stewart

#22. By deciding to succeed and actually trying to make your dreams come true, you are already successful. Your effort and continued dedication distinguish you from those who don't have the courage or stamina to really try.

Daniel Klatt

#23. Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the day if you just make an effort and become more aware. Also remember to start slow, don't go into it too hard if you are just starting.

Miesha Tate

#24. As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

Sam Altman

#25. If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal

Paul Twitchell

#26. The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

Emilio Estevez

#27. As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#28. You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Eddie Murphy

#29. Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don't know anything.

Ben Horowitz

#30. A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.

Wes Anderson

#31. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it. You have to make an effort, but not go overboard.

Alexandra Roach

#32. I feel like spirituality definitely comes through in my music, but I don't make any specific efforts to make it that way.

John Legend

#33. It's too hard to make a movie if you don't care about what happens to it, or even what the product is. I can't even imagine that. It's not worth the time and effort if you don't care about the product.

Bradley Cooper

#34. I don't make friends easily, because I think most people are useless idiots. I don't see that as being a flaw on my part. There is no such thing as a "people person"; some people are just better at faking niceness. I put in an effort occasionally.

Ashley Little

#35. If someone wants to be a part of your life, they'll be there. So don't bother saving a spot for someone who won't make an effort to stay.

Michael Cera

#36. Don't look back; look only towards the horizon of your dreams. They await you and you need only make the effort to arrive.

Timothy G. Bax

#37. No matter what you want to achieve in life, if you don't make an effort, you'll never achieve it".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#38. Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection.

Suzanne Young

#39. The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#40. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#41. I don't give away my shoes to celebrities for free. I'm only happy when people like what I do and make the effort to buy them. I would not be happy to see people in my shoes if I knew that they had to be paid to do it, that they had to be pushed.

Christian Louboutin

#42. Are you going to make me work for it?"
I nodded and straightened up from the post, bringing our bodies so close I could almost feel him against me. "If I don't believe I'm worth the effort, why the hell would you?

Samantha Young

#43. I don't think people realize the risks they face every time they create a text, or post on a social network. Unless you expressly make the effort, everything you do online, including texting, has a shelf life of forever.

Mark Cuban

#44. The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

Salvador Dali

#45. I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

Patricia Polacco

#46. When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

Abbie Cornish

#47. You imagine that there's no use struggling against fate, that she will always have her way, no matter what we do. But don't you see? It's our very efforts to cheat fate, or to change it, that make things come to pass in the way they were meant to.

Gary L. Blackwood

#48. Make an effort to exert yourself-everyday. Don't fail because you never allowed yourself to get started! Don't avoid success because you think the responsibility might be too much-just focus and get going! You'd be surprised at what intelligent effort can produce.

Donald Trump

#49. Although I don't disagree that utterances express desires and try to make complexities precise, I actually don't think at all that any of our efforts to speak and mean things are ultimately why we speak.

Paul Fry

#50. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.

Steve Goodier

#51. She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.

Don DeLillo

#52. America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.

A.S. Byatt