The reward of a work is to have produced it; the reward of effort is to have grown by it.

Kigumu kuliko vyote ni kizuri kuliko vyote.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

If you’re not gonna go all the way, why go at all?

If there is one lesson I’ve learned from failure and success, it’s this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in...

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

Only super-efforts count.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.

Loving someone can never be difficult, it’s when you judge the other person that everything tumbles.. Loving someone is easy, so I fall, rise or fly in love over and over again.. what’s difficult is...

Now we cannot…discover our failure to keep God’s law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say there will always be at the back of our minds...

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black,...

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such a waste! I thought, ‘If only she had started out with a...

People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.

Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. But if you want to do original work you must...

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

We can make the United States a ‘Hispanic Quebec’ without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.

You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.

Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

As to the number of novels I’ve abandoned… I shudder to think. I have thrown away five completed novels, and that’s a gruesome enough figure. But not necessarily a waste of effort.

In every problem, there’s a concealed solution…locking itself underneath…unlock,peruse,find and solve.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort.

In the game of life, we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with...

Sheer effort enables those with nothing to surpass those with priviledge and position.

Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

The good life doesn’t knock on the door. Joy is a job.

I Have a Dream.”24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics 25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world’s first...

Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of man’s knowledge, that counts most. As someone has said, ‘The...

Loving is effortless.. while Relationships, they require your time and patience… the two things we all lack..

Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.

Speak as educated nature suggests to you, and you will do well, but let it be educated and not raw, rude, uncultivated nature. Demosthenes took unbounded pains with his voice, and Cicero, who was naturally...

We always give our best effort to achieve our goal in any way. It is believed to be happy in that way. Unfortunately, we always pay less attention to the ways of our achievement. We...

Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves when autumn arrives, or the stretching of their many stiff fingers into the...

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

It’s clear to me now that we’ve got to reach out to the Arab Sunni community in particular in an effort to cause some moderate political activity to take place so they join the future...

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.

Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.

do nothing” to still the mind, quiet fears, or resolve conflicts—all of this is doing something. It only leads to more struggling and prevents you from seeing the actual nature of thought and internal conflict....

A scientist’s accomplishments are equal to the integral of his ability integrated over the hours of his effort.

I’m really lucky in that I can do lots of different things. It must be really hard to just be a poet or just be a novelist – a constant cycle of effort and exhaustion...

Before you speak… I have already heard. Before you see… I had seen a million times. Before you reach… I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.