Effort Quotes - Page 60

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

Don't tell me about your effort. Show me your results

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.

Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe.

A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Kitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.

It's an old magical principle - it's even filtered down into RPG systems - that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' - in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.

Truth requires a maximum effort to see through the eyes of strangers, foreigners, and enemies.

A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.

Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.

Gandhi has more recently recognized the need for continuance of British, American and Chinese efforts in India and has suggested that these troops might remain by agreement with some new Indian Government.

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)

Beliefs are so powerful because they dictate our efforts and actions.

Those that spend the most effort in search of shortcuts are often the most disappointed and the least successful.

It will take you less time and effort to do a thing the difficult way than it will to buy, try and discard all the shortcuts.