Famous Quotes & Sayings

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Chen Shui-bian

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

Chaka Khan

I have a lot of charity work I'm into right now, and selling my Chakalates - supporting that whole effort.

Charlie Martin

All modeling efforts will inevitably converge on the result most likely to lead to further funding.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Effort supposes resistance.

Bill Johnson

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

Edward Gibbon

Feeble and timid minds . . . consider the use of dilatory and ambiguous measures as the most admirable efforts of consummate prudence.

David Dixon

As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

The only redeeming thing about it is it's the first game. I'm stunned with our effort and togetherness.

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

Mark Cuban

One thing we can all control is effort

Mark Cuban

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.

Mark Cuban

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Marty Turco

We're going to put everything on the line on Friday. It's going to be an effort that's unparalleled to anything this year.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Kay Robertson

One of the great tragedies I see is people not putting every effort into the foundation of their marriage. My grandmother told me that it's one man and one woman for life and that your marriage is worth fighting for.

Scott Erickson

What a great job. I've never been prouder of a team in a loss. It was a great effort from only 15 kids.

What a great game it was. I'm proud of our kids and the effort they gave. We'll get one soon, hopefully Friday up in Springdale.

We wrestled really tough. We just gave up some late pins. We fought hard and wrestled well. We made some mistakes and they capitalized on it. I'm happy with the effort but not with the outcome." ()

Cal Ripken, Jr.

All I really try and do is live up to my potential and do as well as I possibly could and to bring to the ballpark each and every day a good effort and do the best that I could each and every day.

Robin Hobb

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts