Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Lawrence

It never does much good to find out why you can't; put your effort into what you can do.

Henry Miller

I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself.

James Agee

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

Gary Vaynerchuk

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Fritz Todt

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Frederic Bastiat

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

Christine Pelosi

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Gary Player

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

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.

George W. Bush

Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies.

Jeanette Winterson

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

Jennifer Stone

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Jemaine Clement

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up

Jennifer Egan

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jean Vanier

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Harper Lee

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

Ignatius of Loyola

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Ian Bogost

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Hugh Prather

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Hugh Dancy

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Howard Gordon

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Hannah Arendt

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Gene Simmons

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

Fernando Pessoa

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

Ezra Taft Benson

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

Francis of Assisi

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure.

I felt we had a good effort as a team tonight. Our goal when we got the lead late was to keep running our offense and start to take some time off the clock.

I don?t think the effort was a total issue today. We played pretty hard. But it?s one thing to play hard and another to play well and do your job.

I don't see a reason they would hold back on it. Every effort is going to be made to do that.

Ariel Sharon

I don't see how they can have elections without our help, ... We will make every effort not to help them in their elections.

I am very proud of the younger guys. It took a total team effort tonight.