Sustained Effort Quotes

#1. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).

Max Lucado

#2. But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.

Richard Serra

#3. Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort.

Dalai Lama

#4. Every one who has seriously investigated a novel question, who has really interrogated Nature with a view to a distinct answer, will bear me out in saying that it requires intense and sustained effort of imagination.

George Henry Lewes

#5. It is fine to take a break from an effortful task every once in a while but your learning experience will be diminished without sustained effort.

Art Markman

#6. I think anything that requires real global breakthroughs requires a degree of intensity and sustained effort that cannot be done part time, so it's something you have to do around the clock, and that doesn't compute with our existing educational system.

Peter Thiel

#7. There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

Dallas Willard

#8. Hope is a motivation for pressing ahead, a sustained effort and a joy that the promised will be fulfilled at the right time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or a sense of superfluous aloofness from the world of real men who do the world's real work, then it has harmed that individual.

Theodore Roosevelt

#10. Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.

Wendy Kopp

#11. Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention, and concentrated energy. Opportunities never come to those who wait ... they are captured by those who dare to attack.

Paul J. Meyer

#12. Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Max Lucado

#13. Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

Roger McDonald

#14. We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us.

Dalai Lama

#15. The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained ...

Marya Mannes

#16. 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

#17. Good luck reaches farther than long arms.

Henry George Bohn

#18. "Extra effort," in whatever form it takes (mental, physical, emotional), cannot be sustained without eventual damage and diminishing returns. There has to be a very acute awareness on your part as to the level of exertion and the toll it's taking on those you lead.

Bill Walsh

#19. On the Sabbath day, we are remembering that my relationship with God did not begin with what I've done, it is not sustained by what I do, and it is not guaranteed to the end by my effort or work. I'm saved from beginning to end by Jesus' work.

Mark Driscoll

#20. All effort is in the last analysis sustained by the faith that it is worth making.

Ordway Tead

#21. epicanthic fold.

James S.A. Corey

#22. A blundering wind scatters yellowed leaves...

David Mitchell

#23. Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

E.B. White

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

Dalai Lama

#25. One of your inalienable rights as a human being should be to receive a mysteriously useful omen every day of your life. - Rob Brezsny

Jake Ducey

#26. There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

Henry Villard

#27. Remember, 'Rome was not built in a day.' Instant success is never possible. Competence results only from sustained, consistent, self-disciplined effort over an extended period of time.

Bud Wilkinson

#28. effort is necessary, enlightened, well-directed and sustained.

Thomas Merton

#29. It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Jack Johnson