The financial crisis in our country is not a passing storm. Given the size of the problems, our national effort will not be completed in 2012. It will take many years and will require the...

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew;The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

No one ever drowned in sweat.

There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement...

Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to the effort it takes to see them.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

If I had done nothing more than bring McCabe’s talents to the attention of what has become a world-wide audience–if I had done only this job, I believe I’d have established myself as a force...

Trees are Earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Great leaders catch and correct problems while they’re still small and able to be managed without a lot of hassle. If ignored too long, small problems will morph into much bigger issues that will require...

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Yet the human heart is disheartened by the most unreasonable self-judgments, because even when we take on giants, we too often confuse failure with fault, which I know too well. The only way back from...

Pause today and notice something you have worked hard on and recognize yourself for it. Acknowledge your effort.

We’re going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana’s team.

There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me...

My methods produce lasting behavioral change without unpleasant consequences, because the change does not come from an effort of will. It comes from examining your deep-rooted beliefs of who you are and how the world...

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make, and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt,” said Saliman quietly....

Maendeleo ya mtu yatatokana na juhudi za mtu mwenyewe.

Stays focused and channel your little efforts through a common canal and you will marvel at the amount of pressure you create in that canal.

When we love someone our love becomes demonstrable or real only through our exertion – through the fact that for that someone (or for ourself) we take an extra step or walk an extra mile....

less need, less effort,less negativity,-can control over greater trust for greater desire within

Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. … And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less...

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

(about William Blake)As for Blake’s happiness–a man who knew him said: “If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me.”And...

Making the attempt is what matters most.

When you permit an outside agency to control your feelings and emotions at frequent intervals for a prolonged period, your system will soon get into the habit of submitting to the control of this outside...

It takes good effort to begin and a great effort to complete a task.

I’ve been married, divorced; I’ve been the baby momma, the side piece and the secret… all of these things. I share it in an effort to make people better.

Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Denial couldn’t be maintained.

When all your efforts are channeled through a common canal for progress, no condition can alter a single sentence of your success story! Dream it; Drive it; Be in focus!

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success, did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered. In truth, Messrs Euler...

I’m bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A’s you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord...

When it comes to human success, I’m pretty sure the object doesn’t need a net external force to move it.

A good completion takes a long time; a bad completion cannot be changed later.

Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction.

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.