Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's always embarrassing to be 1-5, no matter where you're at. Everybody wants to win here and we're putting in a lot of effort out there. Things are just not falling our way right now. I'm sure we can turn it around.

It looks like it's another effort to popularize the tablet PC, this time in a smaller form factor.

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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

Do not let fear overcome your efforts.

Henry David Thoreau

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Jennifer Egan

The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.

Jean Vanier

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

James Agee

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

Gary Vaynerchuk

Stop crying... keep hustling.

Fritz Todt

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Frederic Bastiat

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

Jeanette Winterson

Only the impossible is worth the effort.

Jennifer Stone

writers who go outside the lines when they draw pictures of the world are seldom rewarded for their efforts.

Jemaine Clement

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up

Jean-Claude Juncker

There is a proposal to divide the currency zone into a north and a south euro. There is also the idea of setting up a core monetary union in the middle of Europe. I disapprove of these debates. Instead, we should devote all of our efforts to supplementing the monetary union with a political union.

Jim Hightower

There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

Jason Schwartzman

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you'll be

Hillary Clinton

Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

Hillary Clinton

I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

Hillary Clinton

I was involved in a number of efforts to take out Al Qaida leadership when I was secretary of state, including, of course, taking out [Usama] bin Laden.

Eugene Ionesco

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

Harper Lee

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.

Ignatius of Loyola

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Ian Bogost

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.

Hugh Prather

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

Hugh Dancy

I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and didn't quite bargain for the amount of effort and time and money that that absorbs.

Howard Gordon

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

Hannah Arendt

Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody's assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.

Guy Finley

The smallest effort to remember the Divine, or even one of its timeless truths, connects you to a calmness whose power is in that secret strength found in all things deep.