Top effort Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of effort quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Jandy Nelson
It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.
- Jandy Nelson
Collection: Effort
Image of Dallas Willard
Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.
- Dallas Willard
Collection: Effort
Image of Nora Roberts
There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.
- Nora Roberts
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Image of Bill Vaughan
You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
- Bill Vaughan
Collection: Effort
Image of Busta Rhymes
I'm concerned with being in shape, and I definitely experienced the results of being in shape. And I know how incredible it makes me feel, so when I feel like I'm gaining a little weight, I make a conscious effort to return back to being in shape. Being shape has given me a feeling and an ability to perform in many different areas.
- Busta Rhymes
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Image of Charles Sanders Peirce
Effort supposes resistance.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
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Image of Bill Johnson
Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.
- Bill Johnson
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Image of John Wooden
Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort. We are all imperfect and will fail on occasions, but fear of failure is the greatest failure of all.
- John Wooden
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Image of Charles Buxton
The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.
- Charles Buxton
Collection: Effort
Image of Bruce C. Hafen
The Savior’s gift of grace to us is not necessarily limited in time to ‘after’ all we can do. We may receive his grace before, during and after the time when we expend our own efforts
- Bruce C. Hafen
Collection: Effort
Image of Paolo Giordano
With a little effort, she could get up by herself
- Paolo Giordano
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Image of Scott Adams
The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.
- Scott Adams
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Image of Shana Abe
All that effort,” he mused, “merely to avoid me. How gratifying.
- Shana Abe
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Image of Christian Siriano
We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.
- Christian Siriano
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Image of Simone de Beauvoir
Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.
- Simone de Beauvoir
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Image of Michael O'Brien
Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.
- Michael O'Brien
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Image of Nathalie Sarraute
Chacun peut e prouver en soi ce double mouvement: de s ir de s'inte grer a' la socie te , besoin de se re aliser par soi-me" me en dehors d'elle. We all have this double impulse within ourselves: the desire to integrate into society, and the need to fulfil ourselves outside of it, through our own efforts.
- Nathalie Sarraute
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Image of Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
With great effort comes great gratification.
- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Image of Wendell Berry
We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.
- Wendell Berry
Collection: Effort
Image of Theodora Goss
That sort of effort has to come not only from the writer but also from a really innovative publisher like Quirk.
- Theodora Goss
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Image of Sean O'Casey
Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
- Sean O'Casey
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Image of Susan Glaspell
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
- Susan Glaspell
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Image of Sharon Salzberg
To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
- Sharon Salzberg
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Image of Sharon Salzberg
Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.
- Sharon Salzberg
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Image of Stephen Batchelor
Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.
- Stephen Batchelor
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Image of Kate Smith
It has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying - no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own weakness of purpose.
- Kate Smith
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Image of Randy Travis
There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.
- Randy Travis
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Image of Janet Reno
This is a serious problem of major concern, and we have got to approach it in a way that is consistent with this nation's tradition as a nation of immigrants, focusing on legal immigration, supporting that in the right way and doing everything possible consistent with the Constitution to control illegal immigration, and we will continue in those efforts.
- Janet Reno
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Image of W. Bruce Cameron
Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.
- W. Bruce Cameron
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Image of Ralph Marston
Success requires both urgency and patience. Be urgent about making the effort, and patient about seeing the results.
- Ralph Marston
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Image of Antonin Sertillanges
The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.
- Antonin Sertillanges
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Image of Brené Brown
Effort + the courage to show up = enough.
- Brené Brown
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Image of Paul Bowles
The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.
- Paul Bowles
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Image of Hiroyuki Takei
All happiness is built upon small efforts.
- Hiroyuki Takei
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Image of Mark Driscoll
Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.
- Mark Driscoll
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Image of Gary Player
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
- Gary Player
Collection: Effort
Image of C.S. Friedman
The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.
- C.S. Friedman
Collection: Effort
Image of Dick Thornburgh
Every effort must be made to increase forfeiture income.
- Dick Thornburgh
Collection: Effort
Image of Spencer W. Kimball
Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
- Spencer W. Kimball
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Image of Robert K. Greenleaf
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.
- Robert K. Greenleaf
Collection: Effort
Image of John Stossel
When workers can get and equal return for less effort, workers make less effort
- John Stossel
Collection: Effort
Image of Viggo Mortensen
As you get older, you get stuck in your ways; just as you become stiffer physically, you also become stiffer mentally and more narrow-minded unless you make a conscious effort to keep yourself flexible.
- Viggo Mortensen
Collection: Effort
Image of Nancy Horan
How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.
- Nancy Horan
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Image of John Dos Passos
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.
- John Dos Passos
Collection: Effort
Image of Melody Beattie
We learn the magical lesson that making the most of what we have turns it into more.
- Melody Beattie
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Image of Nancy Mitford
Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars.
- Nancy Mitford
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Image of Gerhard Richter
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
- Gerhard Richter
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Image of Cory Booker
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
- Cory Booker
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Image of Ken Venturi
Sometimes you try to make it happen instead of just letting it happen.
- Ken Venturi
Collection: Effort