Famous Quotes & Sayings

Natalie du Toit

I go out there and train as hard as anybody else.

Natalie Goldberg

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

Joshua Ferris

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

Joseph Haydn

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

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.

Leila Josefowicz

When the music is physically demanding, I want to make sure that the effort involved is put across to the audience through physical gesture.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

Linus Pauling

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Leo Tolstoy

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

Peter S. Beagle

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Peter Jennings

Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.

Philip Pullman

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Rabindranath Tagore

Great calm, generous detachment, selfless love, disinterested effort: these are what make for success in life. If you can find peace in yourself and can spread comfort around you, you will be happier than an empress.

Jostein Gaarder

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.

Kofi Annan

All our efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if environmental degradation and natural resource depletion continue unabated.

Kofi Annan

This is an historic step forward in the world's efforts to combat a truly global threat.

Ramana Maharshi

In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

Laurie Helgoe

Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

Lawrence Kohlberg

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Karl Popper

I may be wrong and you may be right, and by an effort, we may get nearer to the truth

Joseph Pilates

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Joseph Prince

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

Jules Renard

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts.

Jules Renard

Fame is a constant effort

Juan Manuel Santos

Colombia is applauded for the efforts that we continue to make to combat drug trafficking.

Karl Kraus

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Lagerfeld

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can't tell the story of my life because, thank God, I'm still living it.

Judy Woodruff

In 2008, the Democrats made a great effort among African-American voters, and they did increase their turnout considerably, and among Latino voters.

Joyce Meyer

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren't worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Joyce Meyer

There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?