Top 1200 Futile Efforts Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

He who has followed the path of love's initiation in the proper order will on arriving at the end suddenly perceive a marvelous beauty, the source of all our efforts

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.

The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.

The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life.

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

The more you succeed, the more you want people to love your efforts.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Our words, actions, and diplomatic efforts should be aimed at trying to achieve pragmatic goals rather than creating rhetorical effect.

Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

We believe open data helps citizens have a better understanding about Seoul's policies and motivates them to join the city government's efforts.

What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the militia of the United States is as futile as it would be injurious if it were capable of being carried into execution... Little more can reasonably be aimed at with the respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed and equipped ; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

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.

We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

Wherever you feel death, feel it. Don’t escape. Death is beautiful; death is the greatest mystery, more mysterious than life. Through life you can gain the world, the futile world- meaningless, worthless. Through death you can gain the eternal. Death is the door.

We have tried to change regimes through a variety of means - over 80 times, by some estimates. Many of these efforts were counterproductive to U.S. interests.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown.

Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts.

We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

By your own efforts waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully.

Having lost sight of our goal, we must redouble our efforts!

I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

I won't work with an unknown banner or director. I want to work with good, known people so my efforts can be noticed.

You can only do what ONLY YOU can do. Do that. The universe will configure around your very best efforts. Willingly.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

Congress has funded numerous programs to provide care and compensation to 9/11 victims, spending several billion dollars on extraordinary and unprecedented efforts.

If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.

I am honored to have the opportunity to lead the extraordinary 23,000 employees of PG&E and to support their efforts to safely serve 16 million Californians.

I adopted the theory of Reincarnation when I was twenty six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilise the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered Reincarnation... time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock... I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

As an environmental engineer I spent many years cleaning up PCB contamination, and I know firsthand the costs these efforts can place on individuals and communities.

Insurgents throughout Iraq continue to threaten our efforts and pose a danger to stability in the region. They fight not for their country, but rather against ours.

Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.