More Effort Quotes

#1. I find being a mother harder than I though it was going to be. That is a tremendous revelation for me personally. Much more time, more care, more attention and more effort needs to be spent on care for the children. That will save the world at large.

Marianne Williamson

#2. Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.

W. Bruce Cameron

#3. When investing, more effort means worse results, most of the time.

Robert Rolih

#4. I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.

Murray Gell-Mann

#5. Smiling takes more effort than it's worth, Your Highness.

Amish Tripathi

#6. However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There's no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps, even make a perceptible difference - but how ashamed I would be to let a day pass without making one more effort.

Isaac Asimov

#7. The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.

Tom Bissell

#8. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard

#9. Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.

Napoleon Hill

#10. Weakness drives us to set goals, to try harder, to put forth more effort, to dream and wish and hope, to reach out further and down deeper, to pray earnestly, to cry mightily, to understand and empathize with valid sincerity. In truth, weakness is a catalyst for greater strength.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. The more effort we make to appreciate and perceive reality, the larger and more accurate our maps will be. But many do not want to make this effort.

M. Scott Peck

#12. The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.

Andy Grove

#13. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labor.

Terry Pratchett

#14. It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

Robert J. Braathe

#15. Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

Napoleon Hill

#16. Success is just a little more effort.

Sydney J. Harris

#17. No goal is impossible. Some things simply take more effort, more time, and more improvising that others.

T.C. McMullen

#18. Don't expect others to put forth more effort toward your dream than you're willing to put. The door to success requires dedication. Unlock the door.

Annette Rivers

#19. Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

Ben Hecht

#20. I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be.

Jason Schwartzman

#21. Everyone is slowly catching on to this one - and I know everyone says this - but we need to make a little more effort with the environment. Everyone says they turn off their lights, but do they really?

Jamie Bell

#22. 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.

Marlee Matlin

#23. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Bruce Lee

#24. The more I examine the issue of clutter, the more effort I put into combating it, because it really does act as a weight.

Gretchen Rubin

#25. It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

Jerome K. Jerome

#26. Love isn't perfect. It's hard work and sometimes it's more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.

Jay Crownover

#27. Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as - with just a little more effort - we could have.

Jeff Hobbs

#28. The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

Denis Waitley

#29. I just love the process of working with other actors. It's like jamming with a musician, except it takes a little more effort to get to that place as an actor, because you have the cameras and lights and everything. But I love jamming with these people.

John Cusack

#30. Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.

Heidi

#31. You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.

Lloyd Jones

#32. It takes way more effort to be a bitch than it does to not be one.

Colleen Hoover

#33. I always think I'm lazy, maybe I could do better, I could make more effort and I always have the feeling that there is a glass wall that I cannot get through. But maybe when I get through, then it's over.

Karl Lagerfeld

#34. I will focus on taking care of myself and helping others. I will put more effort into planning for my future. I will make healthy lifestyle choices so I can feel good every day. These are the priorities that matter.

Susane Colasanti

#35. Peace is such hard work. Harder than war. It takes way more effort to forgive than to kill.

Rae Carson

#36. The effort kids simply thought the difficulty meant "Apply more effort." They didn't see it as a failure, and they didn't think it reflected on their intellect.

Carol S. Dweck

#37. I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Joshua Ferris

#38. Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

Sam Torode

#39. In fact, humans on Titan could fly by muscle power. A human in a hang glider could comfortably take off and cruise around powered by oversized swim-flipper boots - or even take off by flapping artificial wings. The power requirements are minimal - it would probably take no more effort than walking.

Randall Munroe

#40. You put a certain amount of effort into stitching a jacket or dress and you get the garment you expect. There's no mystery. But you put a thousand times more effort into raising your child and the result is the opposite of what you hope and dream for. This seemed so unfair.

Jeffery Deaver

#41. While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Lionel Barber

#42. We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.

Frank A. Clark

#43. One reader is better than another in proportion as he is able of a greater range of activity in reading and exerts more effort.

Mortimer Adler

#44. If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.

Santosh Kalwar

#45. Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory.

Barbara Oakley

#46. 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.

Jahangir Khan

#47. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Elbert Hubbard

#48. Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.

Ian Fleming

#49. Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.

Jennifer Granholm

#50. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#51. When it comes to breaking old habits and starting new ones, remember to be patient with yourself. If you've spent twenty, thirty, or forty years or more repeating the behaviors you're now trying to change, you've got to expect it's going to take time and effort before you see lasting results.

Darren Hardy

#52. If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.

Warren Spector

#53. He talked of this, and passionately longed to hear more of Kitty, and, at the same time, was afraid of hearing it. He dreaded the breaking up of the inward peace he had gained with such effort. "Yes,

Leo Tolstoy

#54. Edward," I said, managing to speak more clearly with a little effort, "there's no point to forever without you. I wouldn't want one day without you.

Stephanie Meyers

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

Emma Thompson

#56. I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

William J. Clinton

#57. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Beth Moore

#58. You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Gordie Howe

#59. We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Fredrik Bajer

#60. They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words ... They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

Rosser Reeves

#61. 1. Your business needs more linchpins. It's scary to rely on a particular employee, but in a postindustrial economy, you have no choice. 2. You are capable of becoming a linchpin. And if you do, you'll discover that it's worth the effort.

Seth Godin

#62. It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

Gene Roddenberry

#63. I find myself drawn to literature more now than in the past; not the individual works as much as the idea of literature - the heroic effort and nobility of our human desire to make beauty of our minds - which moves me to tears, and I have to brush them away, quickly, before anyone notices.

Ruth Ozeki

#64. When you look at your passions, your interests, and your own self, and see nothing of worth, then know that life will feed this belief back to you. If you can find a way to value yourself without exerting your will or your effort anymore, you will find that you need to do less, to shine more.

Kelly Martin

#65. We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

Jim Steranko

#66. Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.

Paul Valery

#67. The more recent effort to encourage everyone to pray in common involves so many people.

Shane Claiborne

#68. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

#69. Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#70. In a word, why were they not men at worst, when at best they ought to be more of men than other men?
And here lay the difficulty: by no effort could I get the face before me to fit into the clerical mould which I had all ready in my own mind for it.

George MacDonald

#71. Lounging indolently in a black silk robe which was loosely tied at the front and which appeared to conceal nothing more than bare skin ... she made a conscious effort not to stare at the bare legs with their sprinkling of dark hair ... was he even wearing underwear? she thought

Cathy Williams

#72. You told me once that a soul isn't something a person is born with but something that must be built, by effort and error, study and love. And you did that with more dedication than most, that work of building a soul-not for your own benefit but for the benefit of those that knew you.

Chad Harbach

#73. Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy.

Richard Francis Burton

#74. I was surprised to see that the pupil remained small and did not noticeably dilate as she talked and listened. Unlike the tasks that we were studying, the mundane conversation apparently demanded little or no effort - no more than retaining two or three digits.

Daniel Kahneman

#75. As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.

Viggo Mortensen

#76. I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city, and I think, 'I should make more of an effort. I should look like that.' But then I think, 'They can't be happy in those heels.'

Kate Winslet

#77. 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

#78. I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.

Steve Goodier

#79. No greater tragedy exists in modern civilization than the aged, worn-out worker who after a life of ceaseless effort and useful productivity must look forward for his declining years to a poorhouse. A modern social consciousness demands a more humane and efficient arrangement.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#80. When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties. Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

Zig Ziglar

#81. Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

Abraham Lincoln

#82. Kids praised for effort complete 50 percent more hard math problems than kids praised for intelligence.

John Medina

#83. Composition is for the most part an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Samuel Johnson

#84. I would say at times I am a 'Glamoholic.' But I am definitely more laid back than glamorous. I think it takes a lot of effort and sometimes I just want to be in jeans.

Sarah Hyland

#85. If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Dan Millman

#86. The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.

Mother Jones

#87. Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

Ban Ki-moon

#88. If your practice is good, you may become proud of it. What you do is good, but something more is added to it. Pride is extra. Right effort is to get rid of something extra.

Shunryu Suzuki

#89. Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war ... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#90. Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race and then not giving it your all hurts even more. The first kind of hurt goes away in hours or a day. The second kind of hurt can last a lifetime.

Lawrence Shapiro

#91. The mechanical effort of conversation is nastier and more complicated than defecation.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#92. Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

Meg Cabot

#93. When she'd finally cranked up her favorite Godsmack CD in an effort to tune him out, he'd let out a roar that had rattled the windows in her car: By all that's holy, woman, what is that hideous noise? Cease and desist! A battlefield at full charge could be no more cacophonous!

Karen Marie Moning

#94. The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

Joel Miller

#95. He restrained himself from another wisecrack, infinitesimally but with great effort attempting to close down his nightclub approach to education; every positive change in his life, every minute increment in character, acquired more or less through shame.

Richard Price

#96. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.

Gabor Mate

#97. The glory of medicine is that it is constantly moving forward, that there is always more to learn. The ills of today do not cloud the horizon of tomorrow, but act as a spur to greater effort.

William James Mayo

#98. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game

Morgan Wootten

#99. It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

A.J. Ayer

#100. Traditionally, women have a lot of different roles in society. It is very difficult to balance all these roles and at the same time to compete with men. A leading, successful woman has to put in much bigger efforts to be more competent and faster, more dynamic and organized, than a successful man.

Dalia Grybauskaite