Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Anton Chekhov

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

Brandon Sanderson

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler." Kelsier: Ah, but being an annoyance is something that I am very good at. In fact, I'm far more than just a 'mild' annoyance--people tell me I can be downright frustrating. Might as well use this talent for the cause of good, eh?

Jacki Weaver

I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

Jeremy Lin

I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

Gerald R. Ford

Never be satisfied with less than your very best effort. If you strive for the top and miss, you'll still 'beat the pack.'

Peter Lynch

There's no use diversifying into unknown companies just for the sake of diversity. A foolish diversity is the hobgoblin of small investors. That said, it isn't safe to own just one stock, because in spite of your best efforts, the one you choose might be the victim of unforeseen circumstances. In small portfolios, I'd be comfortable owning between three and ten stocks.

Peter Straub

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Julian Simon

Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven. . . . My message certainly is not one of complacency. In this I agree with the doomsayers: our world needs the best efforts of all humanity to improve our lot.

Kathy Griffin

Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

Seth Godin

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

John Wooden

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

John Wooden

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

LeBron James

Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

Stephenie Meyer

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

William James

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

Len Wein

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

Tony Dungy

What will people remember us for? Are other people’s lives better because we lived? Did we make a difference? Did we use to the fullest the gifts and abilities God gave us? Did we give our best effort, and did we do it for the right reasons?

Sigmund Freud

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

Tom Peters

Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

Robert Browning

Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

Suzanne Massie

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.