You were born and with you endless possibilities, very few ever to be realized. It’s okay. Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do. 

Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today.

You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness.

I don’t want to be polite. I don’t think campaigning is polite. That’s a disingenuous effort.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you’d ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World?

Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

You know, I know I should be just as panicky as you about the filthy work – one wants to do nothing in the evenings, certainly not spread rotten books around & dredge for a...

Everything has an advantage and disadvantage but, choose an option that will bring you back to the track. Even if you see a poor man on the street choose an option that will left you...

In life you only get what you put in, the same is true for reading.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Nu mai trăim un prezent placid, ci suntem prinși cu toții în efortul de a ne pregăti permanent pentru viitor.

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the ‘security’ out of Social Security.

I don’t know where this pressure came from. I can’t blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt...

A focused Mind is a result Of a little Effort To tell Your Distractions To sleep for A couple of hours While you are at WORK.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

A bright smile has the strongest electrifying power to lift up the sagging morale and light up a depressed face effortlessly and immediately.

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes...

She expected a lot of me. When I was in fourth grade working on a book report, she made me start the whole thing over when she read it and said it was barely even...

No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection...

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won’t allow you go anywhere, if you don’t make an attempt to move.

There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Don’t expect a man will try any harder to keep you than he did to get you.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she ever would submit to… She was...

…the child trying not to appear as a child, of the strenuousness with which she tried to present the face of a convincing adult.

Think of it, Dad. What if I have it in me to do that, and I don’t try?

If you love another person, you have to become a no-self, a nothing. When you love, you have to become a nobody. When you are a nobody, love happens. If you remain somebody, love never...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes… The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it...

If our society remember the iconic people by they hard work and self effort impacting our community, so I can consider myself as one of them because you will remember how hard I’ve been working...

Healey’s First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging.

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Fiecare nouă tehnologie impune dob ndirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, și asta la răstimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true – you can make excuses or you can make progress, but...

Never give up. It’s like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can’t do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue...

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

You don’t want to get stuck with a record that you’ve done with someone that you feel obligated to put out – that’s not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together...

The easiest way to gain someone’s trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you’re just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

Very often, people will come out and say, ‘Greeks aren’t doing things, Greeks aren’t making changes, there’s no reform,’ That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge...

Value the effort you put forward. Be determined, committed, and involved.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

Don’t tell me about your effort. Show me your results.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will...

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.