Effort Quotes - Page 5

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

A tire spins aimlessly, being pulled a different direction by forces larger and stronger and with little consideration of its wasted effort. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave the road you're on.

There is no greater path than the act of listening.

I think that in our earlier history--the Gettysburg Address or something--there was the conscious sense that democracy was an achievement. It was not simply the most efficient modern system or something. It was something that people collectively made and they understood that they held it together by valuing it.

I’d always heard people say and I’m sure you heard it too, “Change takes time.” But, my parents taught me the more important lesson, very silently but with even greater clarity, “Change takes time. But, it also takes people.” People who are willing to put in their everything. Change doesn’t happen by itself.

A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

The effort you direct at finding and developing the person you are is the key to life

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

Most of your time is spent in doing tasks which barely contribute to the results. The tasks which keep you busy and engaged instead favouring your efforts. Not everything that you do is important. Just a fraction of it is.

No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Making an effort or not making an effort is a choice we make by analyzing the outcome before making that choice. Most of the times the analysis is based on previous experiences, what we fail to understand is, that things change, perceptions change & so are the people, the only thing we don’t allow changing is our analysis.

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even legible. "What's wrong with it?" I asked her. "It's not good enough yet. You have to try harder," she said, her voice gentle. "You have to try hard at everything you do. That's all I ask." I rolled my eyes and revised it, and over time her approach wore off on me and I became like her too - wanting to do my best, expecting my best.

Drinking caffeinated drinks including high potency energy drinks, and consuming other enablers, we do not need to develop an internal source for the energy, effort, endurance, and enthusiasm needed to confront each day.

We all have anger in our hearts at times from past situations or even present. These thoughts hurt one’s self more than anything. Without the effort of washing those thoughts from our minds there can be no inner peace.

Making an effort is the firm foundation to your success. You are worth the effort.

Walls don't fall without effort.

I yearn not for the easy path, but for the right path.  For 'easy' and 'right' are rarely compatible.

Jess thought for a moment. 'You know those films where people fight up the top of the Empire State Building or up a mountain or whatever? And there's always that bit when the baddie slips off and the hero tries to save him, but, like, the sleeve of this jacket tears off and goes over and you hear him all the way down. Aaaaaaaaagh. That's what I want to do.' 'You want to watch me plunge to my doom.' 'I'd like to know that I've made the effort. I want to show people the torn sleeve.

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man's knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, 'The individual withers and the world is more and more.' Man dies at 70, 80, or 90, or at some earlier age, but through his power of physical reproduction, and with the means that he has to transmit the results of effort to those who come after him, he may be said to be immortal.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don't try?

When life brings you mountains, you don’t waste your time asking why; you spend your time climbing over them.

Even when you are lazy and don't have the effort to learn something sit somewhere in public and try to observe the stupid people around you, that would be more than enough learning for the day.

He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.

A willing spirit, a determined effort.

Struggle is less effective than doing nothing.