Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

It's the extra effort after you have done your best that creates victory.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

Mahatma Gandhi

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Freya Stark

Generalizations, one is told, are dangerous. So is life, for that matter, and it is built up on generalization - from the earliest effort of the adventurer who dared to eat a second berry because the first had not killed him.

Francois Hollande

I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like to see a greater dialogue between the U.S. and the EU.

Og Mandino

Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

Og Mandino

Remember that the most difficult tasks are consummated, not by a single explosive burst of energy or effort, but by the constant daily application of the best you have within you.

Norman Ralph Augustine

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

Orison Swett Marden

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Om Puri

Parallel cinema has not made an effort to communicate in a language the other person understands.

Norton Juster

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

Norton Juster

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

Emile M. Cioran

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.

Henri Poincare

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Henri Matisse

Seeing is in itself a creative act which requires effort.

Henri Nouwen

It is in solitude that we discover that being is more important than having and that we are worth more than the results of our efforts. In solitude we discover that our life is not a possession to be defended but a gift to be shared.

Hirohito

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

Hjalmar Schacht

It stands, essentially, for the application of increased energy to the efforts already undertaken by my ministry since 1934 with the results shown in the above statistics.

Heston Blumenthal

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort

Henry Ford

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Henry James

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

Eric Mangini

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

Emma Thompson

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

Emilio Estevez

The low-hanging fruit is cynicism and pessimism, and it's there if you want it. You can reach out and you can grab it, you don't even have to make any effort.

Any time we wrestle someone more than once, we try to improve. It's a great measuring stick to know we improved that much. We're not happy because we didn't win, but we're happy with their effort as a team.

Mario Monti

Server networks lie at the heart of the future of the Web and every effort must be made to prevent their monopolization through illegal practices,

Small-scale aquaculture requires low-cost labor and doesn't require much investment and effort once the ponds have been set up.

Bill Tierney

So disappointing. Not because you lose, but because of the effort the kids put in all week long.

At this point, you should go with the majors. Now is the time to stick with your large, name-brand charities. Someone who did a good job with the tsunami effort is probably prepared to do a good job in New Orleans and Mississippi.

David Reutimann

That's as wide open as I can mash it. All in all a great effort and hopefully we will be as good in the race.

execution and effort was symbolic of a losing football team. ... I think that is the worst we've probably played in three years.