Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Lewis

Do whatever you gotta do to chase your legacy every second of your life.

Ray Lewis

I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

Ray Lewis

Effort is between you and you.

Rajneesh

Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created only out of regularity. It has to be very persistent and a continuity has to be maintained. Even to miss for one day is to destroy much - and at least one hour every day has to be given to it.

Thomas Jefferson

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

Rick Ross

When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort.

Swami Vivekananda

The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life.

Ron Hunter

If you can start with effort then you have a chance.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

With great effort comes great gratification.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

Stephen Bayley

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.

William James

Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.

Samuel Smiles

Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

Wietse Venema

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

Richard Dawkins

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

Robert Walpole

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Robert Wilson Lynd

We cannot get happiness by striving after it, and yet with an effort we can impart it.

Robert Redford

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

Richard P. Feynman

In its efforts to learn as much as possible about nature, modern physics has found that certain things can never be "known" with certainty. Much of our knowledge must always remain uncertain. The most we can know is in terms of probabilities.

Thomas Sankara

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

Thomas S. Monson

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Thomas Sowell

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.

Robert Hormats

Drug and human traffic are getting a lot more attention than illicit wildlife trafficking. And just as we need to intensify our efforts to combat drug trade and human trafficking, we also need to intensify our efforts to combat illicit wildlife trafficking...They all need to be addressed through bold and consistent actions by the international community.

Robert Greene

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

Ricardo Semler

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Trevor Manuel

Failure to deliver a deal in Hong Kong is just not acceptable, ... There must be an intensification of the efforts.

Yo-Yo Ma

There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.

William Ruckelshaus

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Wu Bangguo

To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

Yasser Arafat

When I made a big effort in '96 and it is not - I squeezed and I arrested a part of [terroristic groups].

Winston Churchill

A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

Will Rogers

Things will get better - despite our efforts to improve them.