Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Anton Chekhov

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Suzanne Massie

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

Tony Dungy

What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

Stephenie Meyer

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

Tom Peters

Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

Sigmund Freud

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Robert Browning

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Ronnie Reyes

We're still making mistakes that are haunting us. What do you do?

Night Shyamalan

Some stories just resonate with you as a storyteller and never leave you. This is a story that just kept haunting me.

Ann Brashares

The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

Lisa Kleypas

Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

There's things that you don't want to do and they keep haunting you and following you. Bennett Miller directed this project [Capote], who is a friend of mine since I was 16, and Danny Futterman wrote it, and he's also been a friend of mine since I was 16.

Nigel Kneale

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

Franz Kafka

You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.

Walter de La Mare

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Alaina Huffman

I tend to curse in French more often than I do in English.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Lance Johnstone

It's not like the position is cursed here.

Jason Zebehazy

They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.

Kyp Malone

As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.

Michael Gartenberg

The strategy here of under-promising and being able to over-deliver is the right approach. Typically one of the thing that curses startups is when you peak too early, when expectations are set way too high, they discover there are issues.

Benjamin Franklin

Pox take you, is no curse to some people.

Lawrence Wilkerson

I've been there. I've stood on the hot parade ground as a pilot. I've cursed generals.

Thomas Shepard

In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out.