Effort Quotes

All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun. You get self-satisfaction from pushing your self to the limit, knowing that all the effort is going to pay off.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

In most organizational change efforts, it is much easier to draw on the strengths of the culture than to overcome the constraints by changing the culture.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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.

We will make every effort with utmost sincerity to achieve a peaceful reunification of the country.

Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.

Don't believe in success. Rather than that, believe in the amount of your effort and passion.

Talk without effort is nothing.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Nothing can come of nothing.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

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.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

One hour of neglect can undo a year of pious effort.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

This world would be a whole lot better if we just made an effort to be less horrible to one another.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

Work hard or don't work at all.

I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children.

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

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.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Believe that none of the effort you put into coming closer to God is ever wasted - even if in the end you don't achieve what you are striving for.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

Endeavoring to live the Christian life by your own efforts is the greatest single hindrance to walking in the Spirit.

We can control a few things: our attitude, our effort, our focus and how we go about treating our teammates.

If you've given the greatest effort that you can expect of yourself, you always get what you deserve.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary.