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Strive to accomplish the very best you are capable of. Nothing less than your best effort will suffice. — John Wooden

If you're not ready to make the greatest effort, don't even think about the greatest goal — Paul Twitchell

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco

I continually stress to my players that all I expect from them at practice and in the games is their maximum effort. — John Wooden

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea. — Charlotte Bunch

Remember, research has shown that the more effort you put into recalling material, the deeper it embeds itself into your memory. — Barbara Oakley

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush. — Katherine Harris

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it. — Stuart Chase

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future. — Martha Gellhorn

There is no greater path than the act of listening. — Bryant McGill

Prayer for the work will soon arouse your own sympathy and effort. — D.L. Moody

The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as the greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. — John Ruskin

I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe. — Murray Gell-Mann

The harmonious efforts which our guitarists produce unconsciously represent one of the marvels of natural art. — Manuel De Falla

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well. — Joe Hyams

Ill-Success failed to crush us: the mere effort to succeed had given a wonderful zest to existence; it must be pursued. — Charlotte Bronte

Efforts to preserve all industries will lower the national standard of living. — Michael Porter

The Pertinent Question is NOT how to do things right - but how to find the right things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them. — Peter Drucker

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you. — Arnold Palmer

The only true failure is failure to try. — Wes Fesler

Like a garden that is carefully tended, the rewards are well worth the effort. — Anodea Judith

Effort, not ability, makes the biggest difference in achievement. — William J. Clinton

Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things. — Marty Rubin

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind. — Lewis Thomas

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort — Gene Kranz

Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands. — Chila Woychik

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return. — Alan Cohen

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. — Salvador Dali

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it. — Colin Powell

To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth. — Mary Church Terrell

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken. — Anais Nin

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory. — B.K.S. Iyengar

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation. — Hirohito

Success in anything important rarely comes without the Five Horsemen of Success: planning, effort, positivity, perseverance and resilience. — Michael Josephson

I'm actually equal parts cynicism and apathy. I'm always willing to believe the worst as long as it doesn't take too much effort. — Dennis Miller

What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action? — Gloria Feldt

If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas — Dean Koontz

It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca The Younger

Not only has President Bush broken his word on funding, he has not put in the effort required to turn this excellent idea into a lifesaving reality. — Jamie Drummond

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace. — Baldassare Castiglione

The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. — William Shakespeare

You can't just cast aside family members because they seem uninterested in you. You've got to make the effort, because they're family. — J.D. Vance

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I'm encouraging myself to live in the present moment. — Deepak Chopra

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

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it. — Emily Bronte

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique. — Don Meyer

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The only thing ever achieved in life without effort is failure. — Francis Of Assisi

Any effort which wittingly or unwittingly draws a wedge between the people and Armed Forces of Pakistan undermines the larger national interest. — Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest. — Alexander Lowen

For the scholar no effort is ever wasted. — Stephen R. Lawhead

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans. — Albert Camus

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. — Norton Juster

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in. — Paul J. Meyer

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort. — Len Wein

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character. — Epictetus

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. — Giorgio Napolitano

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. — F. Huegel

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish. — Seneca The Younger

I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel, — Anwar Ibrahim

All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction. — Yi-Fu Tuan

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome. — Bryant McGill

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford

I love it if a man makes an effort to get to know my parents and sisters. Getting to know the people who matter to me goes a long way. — Summer Glau

It's the effort of trying to change things from what they are that ultimately exhausts us. Mindfulness — Ruby Wax

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. — Elbert Hubbard

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

The most direct and practical method of self-development is to achieve yourself by your own effort. — Hua Ching Ni

Without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that — R.A. Salvatore

When Winston Churchill was asked to cut arts funding in favour of the war effort, he simply asked,'then what are we fighting for? — Kazuo Ishiguro

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. — Rajneesh

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change. — Valerie Jarrett

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others. — Carson Cistulli

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods. — Simon Toyne

Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. — P.D. Ouspensky

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. — Andrew Young

The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort. — Plato

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff. — Chris Hardwick

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort. — Vijay Krishna

The quality of results from any collaboration effort are driven by trust and respect — Jim Highsmith

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. — Robert E.Lee

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. — Colin Powell

I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show. — Joanna Lumley

Time has nothing to do with the matter. — Moliere

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

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well. — Sam Altman

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it's easy. — Nigella Lawson

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston S. Churchill

A person must make the effort to learn, and growing is the inevitable reward of learning. He — Maya Angelou

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts. — Jose Bergamin

Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter. — Donna Karan

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

CALMNESS of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. — James Allen

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. — Jack Nicholson

The acquisition of mental skills is a matter of volition and focused effort; it is not a special mystical gift given to the few. — Dalai Lama XIV