Top 100 Quotes About Effort
#1. Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.
George Bernard Shaw
#2. For the beginner, practice without effort is not true practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#3. All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.
Florence Nightingale
#4. If you put any effort into anything you do and have a strong sense of self to the point where you don't even question your choices before you walk out of the house - you're a fucking weirdo.
Jen Kirkman
#5. I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
Felix Dennis
#6. The Captain of the Guard would be an interesting opponent. Maybe even worthy of some effort on her part.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.
Rush Limbaugh
#8. Don't let yourself be thrown away ... Continue on no matter what ... Continue to make a positive effort for the good.
Natalie Goldberg
#9. You know, I think that romance sort of coincides with effort, so you can fall flat on your face, but as long as you're making a great effort, I think it comes off as romantic.
Ashton Kutcher
#10. Its going to require a global effort to reduce greenhouse gases and hopefully derail some of the adverse impacts that we are experiencing today and the devastating impacts that we are going to experience in the future as a result of global warming.
Jerome Ringo
#11. She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.
Niall Williams
#12. The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
Antonio Gaudi
#13. None of the things I have done would have been accomplished without a true team effort.
Nick Lampson
#14. To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.
Maurice Young
#15. Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
Neil Gaiman
#16. Relaxing after intense effort not only provides an opportunity to rejuvenate, but also to metabolise and embed learning.
Malti Bhojwani
#17. She had seen it when she was at home last summer - the hostility of comfortable, self-satisfied people toward serious effort.
Willa Cather
#18. The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is. God uses whatever is usable in a life, both to speak and to act, and those who insist on fireworks in the sky may miss the electricity that sparks the human heart.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#19. You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Larry Winget
#20. You have to make an effort to always look at the good side, always think about the good things. Then you've got nothing to be afraid of. If something bad comes up, you do more thinking at that point.
Haruki Murakami
#21. You know, he said, with an effort, 'if one person loves, the other does.'
... 'I hope so, because if it were not, love might be a very terrible thing,' she said.
'Yes, but it is - at least with most people,' he answered.
D.H. Lawrence
#22. Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.
Michael Jordan
#23. Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.
Dinesh D'Souza
#24. Knowing how things work reduces the effort.
This is the fundamental principle of technology.
Toba Beta
#25. The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.
Craig L. Thomas
#26. Persistence is nothing more than Concentrated Effort mixed with Determination and Faith.
Napoleon Hill
#27. Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.
Mark Victor Hansen
#28. 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
#29. What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Andre Gide
#30. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. 'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.' Elrond
J.R.R. Tolkien
#31. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
Sarah Churchwell
#32. Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.
Regina R. Carver
#33. We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
Wallace Stegner
#34. No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
Orison Swett Marden
#35. In and effort to be fair, an umpire will sometimes cheat.
Dan Gutman
#36. Place a substantial meal before a tired man and he will eat with effort and be little better for it at first. Give him a glass of wine or brandy, and immediately he feels better: you see him come to life again before you.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#37. Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
#38. What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to his temples. 'What have you done!'
With an effort, Eragon said, 'Made you understand.
Christopher Paolini
#40. I must confess that I am deeply troubled. I fear that human beings are intent upon acting out a vast deathwish and that it lies with us now to make every effort to promote resistance to the insanity and brutality of policies which encompass the extermination of hundreds of millions of human beings.
Bertrand Russell
#41. You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.
James G. Stavridis
#42. More important than success is the individual who strives towards his goal. It is the effort which counts. The goal is just a finish line - it accomplishes there and its happiness short lived.
Amit Abraham
#43. The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.
Ashly Lorenzana
#44. Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort.
Terry Rossio
#45. Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.
Arthur Miller
#46. You can't micromanage. People who try to do that often fall on their faces. Incentivize those who work with you so you get the best work you can. Every career is a team effort, even if you're the one in front.
Michael Franzese
#47. It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
Buffalo Bill
#48. A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.
Leo Strauss
#49. Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
Tara Brach
#50. True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain.
Zenkei Shibayama
#51. Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.
Jeanette Winterson
#52. Grasp on to the beautiful part, Slick." "I'll make an effort to do that, Jake.
Kristen Ashley
#53. Ari grunted a greeting. "What took you ... so long?" His breath huffed with the effort.
"I stopped for a snack, and ordered us a couple beers," Janco said. "We should finish him soon. I hate warm beer.
Maria V. Snyder
#54. When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.
Malcolm Forbes
#55. The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
Duffy Daugherty
#56. A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
Watchman Nee
#57. I don't feel I'm making a conscious effort to go more commercial.
Guy Pearce
#58. Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
Timothy Keller
#59. The best things in life must come by effort from within, not by gifts from the outside.
Fred Pierce Corson
#60. It's a good team though that works very closely and very well together, and all those people putting that effort in, then I'm sure we will improve dramatically from where we are now as the season goes on.
David Leslie
#61. It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.
Iain Pears
#63. I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way.
Summer Glau
#64. Team spirit elevates with a broad-based contribution to the group effort. It's especially important for the high-performing leader to avoid the situation of one or two people being the only contributors during a meeting.
Andrew J Dubrin
#65. If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal
Paul Twitchell
#66. I have to often read the same sentence over and over before I understand it. And I have to convince myself that what I'm reading is so enjoyable and so exciting and so good for me that it's worth the effort.
Philip Schultz
#68. A lot of my time, effort, and focus is spent on 'WhatsApp'. And that, to me, is more valuable and rewarding than to work on anything else.
Jan Koum
#69. Life's incredibly boring. I don't say that in an effort to seem vaguely amusing but the secret of life is that there's no secret, it's just exceedingly boring.
Morrissey
#70. All discomfort is not equal. Learning to listen will help you distinguish among effort, fatigue and pain. To what degree, under what conditions and over what period of time your body experiences these sensations will determine how you respond.
Gina Greenlee
#71. big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death.
Jared Diamond
#72. Anything acquired without effort, and without cost is generally unappreciated.
Napoleon Hill
#73. Collaboration, it turns out, is not a gift from the gods but a skill that requires effort and practice.
Douglas B. Reeves
#74. It takes a sharp blade, a huge effort to separate one half of a coin from the other. It would take something a hell of a lot stronger and sharper to separate me from her.
Alexandra Bracken
#75. Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field
Mike Krzyzewski
#76. Others may have more ability than you, they may be larger, faster, quicker, better jumpers ... but no one should be your superior in respect to team spirit, loyalty, enthusiasm, cooperation, determination, industriousness, fight effort, and character.
John Wooden
#77. Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.
Donna Lynn Hope
#78. Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
John Burns
#79. The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
Max Lerner
#80. People often think that there's a general who makes all the difference, but I would reject that. It's a team effort. It's the power of the wedge.
Jim Harbaugh
#81. It is two years since I emerged from depression and I no longer want myself dead. I want myself alive. I am no longer my own enemy. Depression is the enemy. The monster lives at my gate. My hope is that, with sufficient effort and luck, I can keep it there.
Sally Brampton
#82. Ms. Baird, no one is good or bad at sex by themselves," he drawled. "It's a team effort, and you know I'm a team player.
Nalini Singh
#83. Not that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like ... skipping ahead. If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person
you should have to work for that first kiss.
Rainbow Rowell
#84. A firm is successful when the costs of directing employee effort are lower than the potential gain from directing.
Clay Shirky
#85. 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.
Mitt Romney
#86. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me - any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail.
Joseph Murray
#87. It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.
Chapman Cohen
#88. Science exacts a substantial entry fee in effort and tedium in exchange for its insights.
Carl Sagan
#89. A nation's preoccupation with history is not infrequently an effort to obtain a passport for the future. Often it is a forged passport.
Eric Hoffer
#90. A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#91. Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
Sharon Salzberg
#92. We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.
Adam Jones
#93. Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.
Karen Armstrong
#94. The effort to validate the handwritten will of Seth Hubbard continued to unravel late Sunday morning,
John Grisham
#95. We're looking forward to the tournament. We still believe that if we play with effort, we can beat anyone. We just can't have those 2-3-minute lapses.
Rajon Rondo
#96. I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn't make much of an effort.
Jane Green
#97. At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke
Aaron Allston
#98. When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don't know when you'll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. Even a friendship needs an effort from both sides, how can we expect a relationship to work from the effort of one..!!
It should be a true-hearted commitment from both involve.
Akansh Malik
#100. You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
Caroline Kennedy
