Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Waterston

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Sam Altman

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

Sadaharu Oh

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

Sadie Frost

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Rosser Reeves

They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words ... They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

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 E. Howard

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

Steve Harvey

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

Vaclav Havel

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

Suzanne Collins

So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

Sophocles

Success is dependant on effort.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

With great effort comes great gratification.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Thomas Lynch

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

Thomas Merton

The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value. And the things I never thought about, the things I was never able to either to measure or to expect, were the things that mattered.

Thomas Carlyle

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

Sigmund Freud

But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.

Sigmund Freud

In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?

Shakira

I never went to the gym before in my life. But, at 32, I notice that my body responds negatively to bad food, so I must make double the effort.

Pope John Paul II

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

Pierre de Coubertin

Olympism is not a system - it is a state of mind. This state of mind has emerged from a double cult: that of effort and that of Eurythmy - a taste of excess and a taste of measure combined.

Pierre Corneille

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Pope Francis

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things.

Pope Francis

Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free victims and stop this crime that’s become ever more aggressive, that threatens not just individuals, but the foundational values of society.

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.

Terence McKenna

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

James M. Cain

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.

Stephen Bayley

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

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.

Wietse Venema

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Yasser Arafat

When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].