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!

Akio Morita

While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.

Eddie Izzard

I am someone who's very positive about business, as a social Democrat. I do like the safety net of the welfare system and people setting things and creating business, and that's what I try to do with my own work: export it around the world from the U.K.

Beau Willimon

When you're creating new roles out of scratch in my opinion working with the actors is a great asset. You can learn a lot from that.

Zeev Boim

We are making another turn by creating these zones, hoping the message will be learnt and that the launching squads will be stopped, but if there will be no alternative will have to turn it again.

Mitch Lasky

We are at a point in the video game industry that the industry is hollowed out. It is out of touch with the zeitgeist, creating sequels and formulaic games over and over again. The energy comes from the indies.

Marvin Avery

We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shut them down.

Heinrich Rohrer

Scientific fraud, plagiarism, and ghost writing are increasingly being reported in the news media, creating the impression that misconduct has become a widespread and omnipresent evil in scientific research.

Bertolt Brecht

Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

Cass McCombs

Musicians wake up and create a more loving community by creating heavier music.

Charles Spurgeon

One of the greatest rewards that we ever receive for serving God is the permission to do still more for Him.

Eartha Kitt

If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.

Carolyn Wells

Reward is its own virtue.

Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Brian Jaffe

We're excited, we're optimistic, we're hopeful. Hopefully, the rewards are going to be there. The rewards had better be there.

Baruch Spinoza

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Ayn Rand

This was the great clarity of being beyond emotion, after the reward of having felt everything one could feel.

Brian Tracy

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

Juvenal

The thirst for fame is much greater than that for virtue; for who would embrace virtue itself if you take away its rewards? [Lat., Tanto major famae sitis est quam Virtutis: quis enim virtutem amplectitur ipsam Praemia se tollas.]