Top 1200 Great Effort Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by either the executive branch or the legislative branch because of some decision made by those judges.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

There is not going to be, we can be quite certain, there's not going to be any action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by China or India or Indonesia or Brazil unless all developed countries are making a major effort. It will still be a big job to get them in, even if we are all making the effort. But our making the effort is a necessary condition.

Everyone works hard when they want to, when they get quick results, when it's convenient to put forth effort. The best work hard when they don't want to, when it's inconvenient to give it that little extra effort... and that extra effort might be just what they need to place them on top.

Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Persons who have a strong sense of efficacy deploy their attention and effort to the demands of the situation and are spurred by obstacles to greater effort.

Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.

I simply love Malayalam films because they do great cinema, and there is a whole lot of effort that goes into it.

Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

I'm absolutely aware of the great effort Juventus Football Club has made to bring me here.

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

I'm a dad now and whatever I'm doing in life I usually put a lot of effort into it - usually too much effort, so it kind of comes off ridiculous at times.

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite, after having worked hard to get them, so great had been our need of them.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

We put a great deal of effort into Requiem,' and it really felt like we were making something special.

Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.

When someone has great qualities, sometimes they don't have to put much effort into things.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature. My lower nature alone cannot lead me to consciousness. It is blind. But when I wake up and I feel that I belong to a higher world, this is only part of conscious effort. I become truly conscious only when I open to all my possibilities, higher and lower. There is value only in conscious effort.

The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.

Yes, the fullness of the gospel is a pearl of great price worth any effort.

Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us.

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

The Torjagerkanone means a lot to me. It was a great effort - made by the whole team.

Purity is something that cannot be attained except by piling effort upon effort.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

Every single success you experience is a combination of two things: your effort and Allah's help. When you don't put in enough effort, Allah does not give His barakah. And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort but you may not see the result you expected. That, also, is Allah's barakah.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.

I just wanted to make good music that people related to me and said 'Yo that guy makes good music. When he gives us an effort, it's good music behind it. It's great lyrics, it's witty punchlines, it's great metaphors.'

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

Establishing a friendship after divorce takes great effort and a lot of swallowing of your pride and ego.

One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

In America, it was decided to attempt the production of atomic bombs with an effort that would constitute a large part of the collective American war effort. In Germany, an effort one thousandth the scale of the American was applied to the problem of producing atomic energy that would drive engines.

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

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

First the lover must learn charity and keep God's law. Then he shall be blessed a hundredfold, and he shall do great things without great effort, and bear all pain without suffering. And so his life will surpass human reason indeed.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

Slud is something more than slid. It means sliding with great effort.

Costumes are great. That kind of effort tells the audience that the performer has taken the time to be the total package.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

They indeed are fools who are satisfied with the fruits of their past effort and do not engage themselves in self-effort now.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all that is beautiful is going to be a gift from the holy, from the whole. You cannot deserve it in any way and you cannot force existence to make you happy, or to make you loving, or to make you meditative. That very effort is of the ego. That very effort creates misery. That very effort goes against you. That very effort has destroyed you - it is suicidal.

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration.

Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.

All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.