Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.

Phillips Brooks

To say 'well done'to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Philip Yancey

Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

Philip Yancey

I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.

Naveen Jain

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Vernon Howard

Genuine effort is success.

Richard Thompson

I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

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.

Vinton Cerf

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.

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.

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 Green Ingersoll

If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I will, I could not produce a better scheme of life than now prevails, I would be ashamed of my efforts and consider my work a humiliating failure.

Samuel Johnson

All industry must be excited by hope.

Samuel Johnson

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise.

Sam Waterston

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Sam Altman

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this.

Sadaharu Oh

The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.

Sadie Frost

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Rosser Reeves

They establish contact with the subconscious of the consumer below the word level. They do this with visual symbols instead of words ... They communicate faster. They are more direct. There is no work, no mental effort. Their sole purpose is to create images and moods.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough.

Warren Buffett

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself

Vincent Van Gogh

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

Werner Erhard

If you're not all right the way you are it takes a lot of effort to get better. Realize you're all right the way you are,and you'll get better naturally.

Walid Muallem

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

Wallace Stegner

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

Ryan Seacrest

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.