Explore Quotes on Effort

Each of us must make the effort to contribute to the best of our ability according to our individual talents. And then we put all the individual talents together for the highest good of the group. Understanding that the good of the group comes first is fundamental to being a highly productive member of a team.

By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.

To be completely honest with oneself is the very best effort a human being can make.

A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort

Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God's.

Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.

No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.

Making better choices takes work. There is a daily give and take, but it is worth the effort.

Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

I am my age. I'm not making any effort to change it.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable. Even more remarkably, this healing is not just our own healing, it is the healing of all women. That's why, as we tell our stories to ourselves, it is also important to share them with others. This sharing brings a sense of kinship, of sisterhood. We understand that we are not alone in our efforts to become conscious, whole, healthy persons.

When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.

Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.