Top 100 Make An Effort Quotes
#1. Make an effort with tenacity to make real impact that works and don't just create an impression with deception
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#2. Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
Viggo Mortensen
#3. But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.
Harry Harrison
#4. No matter what, make an effort to react positively to each event.
Steven Redhead
#5. 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
#6. Dreams in your life are like light bulbs that brighten your room. But having them on the ceiling is just not enough; you got to make an effort by pressing on the switch and there it goes taking away the darkness!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
Sam Altman
#8. 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
#9. If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.
Colm Meaney
#10. No matter where you live or work or go, there are treasures to be found everywhere. We only have to make an effort to look for them; sometimes it is simply a matter of opening our eyes and senses to see the beauty that envelopes our daily lives.
Lorenzo Dominguez
#11. I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work
Dalai Lama
#12. I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.
Malcolm Goodwin
#13. One should every day think over and make an effort to implant in his mind the saying, "At that time is right now." It is said that it is strange indeed that anyone is able to pass through life by one means or another in negligence.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#14. At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.
Robert Crais
#15. Every dream, every vision is a masterpiece canvas on the wall of our minds. So as artists we should make an effort to bring the artwork to the the exhibition.
Euginia Herlihy
#16. I definitely make an effort to work on different styles of music: not working on too many post-rock bands, or too many heavy bands, or too many folk bands, or just whatever. I have no desire to be known as somebody that just works on a single style of music and would rather avoid it, actually.
John Congleton
#17. 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
#18. The Crown Prince was camped at Nesson this very minute, on his way to the border to stand up to Akielos. He was a young man serious about his responsibilities, Charls said. Damen had to make an effort not to look over at Laurent, gambling, when he said it.
C.S. Pacat
#19. No matter what you want to achieve in life, if you don't make an effort, you'll never achieve it".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#20. It seemed to me that one should make an effort to banish artificial classifications from chemistry and begin to assign to each element the place it must occupy in the natural order by comparing it in succession to others ...
Andre-Marie Ampere
#21. Katie had slept through morning mass but she could still go to confession and make an effort to banish her unholy and unhealthy thoughts. Mother never asked what she was thinking and feeling on these trips; she just assumed that anything Katie had on her mind was dirty and sinful.
Carol Storm
#22. Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.
Christopher Walken
#23. The simplicity of it was disconcerting: a simplicity that made all the other dates they'd had before baffling, those times they'd had to talk or try to be amusing, make an effort to seem like a worthwhile person. The obviousness of it became almost laughable.
David Foenkinos
#24. Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#25. Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.
Benjamin Carson
#26. There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.
Mortimer Adler
#27. I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.
Bat For Lashes
#28. When it comes to picking parts, I do make an effort to choose parts that I want to do, and not necessarily parts someone else wants me to do, or parts that someone else is going to respond to.
Mila Kunis
#29. For me, when I have the opportunity to exhibit abroad, I feel that the public understands some points I have raised and are open-minded and make an effort to understand my work, but there are still certain things that remain inaccessible.
Rirkrit Tiravanija
#30. Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
#31. You yourself must make an effort. Buddhas are only show the way. The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of defilements.
Gautama Buddha
#32. Certainly if we hope do enhance and extend whatever natural assets we were given, we must expect to make an effort, if not actually great labor.
Dixie Carter
#33. Hello Year 2017
I welcome you with open heart. Once again I'm ready to take another step towards my dreams, I'm willing to learn and I'm willing to make an effort to achieve my set goals in Jesus name.
Euginia Herlihy
#34. I suggest that people make an effort to reach out to five people a month. Not just by Facebook or email or Twitter. I'm talking hard-copy note.
Dana Perino
#35. Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
Winifred Gallagher
#36. 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
#37. There's a lot of really talented people in Utah, people who would really make an effort to make the music the best that it could be and as emotional as it could be.
David Archuleta
#38. You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story.
Sara Sheridan
#39. I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.
Halsey
#40. It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#41. Every day of my life I make an effort. Like, everything's an effort - a good effort.
Finn Jones
#42. The second rule is family is a choice."
I thought about that. "You can't choose your family. It's all blood relations."
"Family consists of people you care about, who care about you, who try to make an effort.
C.L.Stone
#43. In order to have success we have to make an effort and this demands persistent, diligent hard work
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior ...
Vincent De Paul
#45. Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.
Jerry Spinelli
#46. I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.
Ice-T
#47. It's cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.
David Archuleta
#48. The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.
Jack White
#49. I've had unsatisfying experiences, but mostly it's about communication, which is why I make an effort to talk to the director beforehand to make sure we see eye-to-eye as creative individuals. If [good] communication isn't present, you can lose something and end up very unhappy.
Martin Starr
#50. The more we make an effort to keep our thoughts positive, the more pleasurable our journey in life will be.
James Van Praagh
#51. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A.A. Milne
#52. Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
Joyce Rachelle
#53. Just like you, your partner wants to be loved for who they are, in spite of their shortcomings. Make an effort to let them know they are loved, even if some of their behavior is not. Work towards co-creative solutions.
Arielle Ford
#54. We must make some effort, but we must forget ourselves in the effort we make ... So it is necessary for us to encourage ourselves and to make an effort up to the last moment, when all effort disappears.
Shunryu Suzuki
#55. Unless I really make an effort, I quite enjoy looking a bit off and something looking a bit wrong. That's how I feel most comfortable. If anything, it's just because I'm, like, very scatty and not very good at putting stuff together.
Suki Waterhouse
#56. It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.
Jerry Garcia
#57. 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.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
#58. If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.
Dalai Lama
#59. Make an effort to remove all labels that you've placed on yourself. Labels serve to negate you. You must ultimately live up to the label rather than being the limitless spirit that is your true essence.
Wayne W. Dyer
#60. Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.
Fernando Pessoa
#61. I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Justin Timberlake
#62. You will need to make an effort to appear a little less scruffy.
Kevin Hearne
#63. I suppose love falls where it falls.'
'Generally, one can see it toppling from afar, and make an effort to get out of the way.
Joe Abercrombie
#64. This is how we cultivate determination: we veer but then, realizing we've veered, we make an effort to get back to the path.
Peter Doobinin
#65. My promise to life, 'I will make an effort to do something worthwhile in my lifetime'.
Sunita Chabra
#66. I like Americans. They always make an effort when they meet you. They want to be liked and to like you; it is always easy to be with them.
Maria Schell
#67. Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#68. When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.
Merrill Markoe
#69. We ought all to make an effort to act on our first thoughts and let our unspoken gratitude find expression. Then there will be more sunshine in the world, and more power to work for what is good.
Albert Schweitzer
#70. You never really get a chance to sit down with the people you love, unless you really make an effort to do it. It doesn't just happen naturally anymore.
Amos Lee
#71. When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.
Matthew Fox
#72. If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously.
Jerry Garcia
#73. For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#74. Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.
Timothy Snyder
#75. Rapport demands joint attention - mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.
Daniel Goleman
#76. One of the presidential campaigns unveiled more of an infrastructure in place for the next contest than was previously thought to be present, with a spokesperson saying that one of the campaign's strengths is that it does not make an effort to draw attention to with every asset.
New York Times
#77. It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.
Dalai Lama
#78. Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
Joan Chen
#79. 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
#80. If a person wants to be a part of your life, they will make an obvious effort to do so. Think twice before reserving a space in your heart for people who do not make an effort to stay.
John Spence
#81. The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
Tibor Fischer
#82. 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
#83. If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
Emily Bronte
#84. I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set ... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.
Gemma Arterton
#85. This planet is a broken bone that didn't set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie.
Tahereh Mafi
#86. The ladies in the beer commercials were hot, no doubt, but when a goddess wants to make an effort, no one else can even open the jar of mustard, let alone cut it.
Kevin Hearne
#87. British people still wear clothes. By clothes I mean actual clothes: jackets and shirts and ties and suits. The spirit of Beau Brummell is still visible. English men make an effort. We've lost that in the US. Everyone is more concerned with being comfortable.
Tom Ford
#88. 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
#89. Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.
Dan Shechtman
#90. Think if you love someone, you make an effort to suppress habits of yours that displease them, right? But those habits or inclinations are still there. Sam,
Charlaine Harris
#91. 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
#92. When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.
Gerhard Richter
#93. I make an effort to survive my own self-destruction.
Kim Holden
#94. I didn't understand in the beginning that the editor didn't want me to know the author. I'd make an effort to meet the author, but it would end up being a disaster because then I had the author telling me what I should be doing.
Peter Sis
#95. Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#96. Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.
Anita Desai
#97. If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'm at home or just chilling, I'm in beanies and jeans and sneakers.
Maia Mitchell
#98. I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.
Juliette Lewis
#99. Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.
Marianne Williamson
#100. 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
