Quotes About Efforts

All through the years since World War II, the Japanese people have, I am convinced, made strenuous efforts to preserve and promote world peace, contributing to the progress and prosperity of mankind.

That made me think that this story would continue forever, recounting now the efforts of children without privileges to improve themselves by getting books from the old shelves, as Lila and I had done as girls, and now the thread of seductive chatter, promises, deceptions, of blood that prevents any true improvement in my city or in the world.

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the authors own conscience.

Mourn me with your efforts, with your hopes. Try simply to be good, to be what I have been among you: spirit. Live, life doesn't stop, the dead will die, the shadows pass; a man takes what he leaves, and one who has lived, lives on." -from "To Don Francisco Giner de los Rios

A large majority of people will never appreciate a person's good work no matter how selflessly he does it for others until they see their own benefits only stemming out of his efforts' results.

A person who expects support or appreciation for his good efforts from own companions like friends, relatives or even family members will either not be able to initiate anything worthy or trip midway while going towards the destination.

A self-centered person lauds publicly the efforts of others only to gain the praise for oneself from the duffer people.

An irony of whole life story is that a person who says or does honestly good for others is not so much punished by his adversary as much by the people who are actually beneficiary of his efforts' results.

Destiny alone decides everything in life's game for everyone as how many efforts a person has to make and how much s/he gets the results in terms of Name, Fame & Money.

Surprise do not even a bit by seeing the employees who snatch away sincere, hard workers' efforts credit often only get high salary increment and job promotion every year in a private organisation.

Trust, no amount of efforts in terms of a hard work will ever work to produce the desired results unless and until it is coupled with a good luck.

More often than not, a lack of progress in your muscle-building efforts can be linked to nutritional shortcomings in your diet.

Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

Biopharmaceutical research and development efforts have achieved dramatic improvements in global health and longevity, and we are committed to continuing our quest.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

I have decided not to run for the U.S. Senate and instead continue my efforts to make California a better place to live, work, and raise a family. We have come a long way, but our work is not done, and neither am I.

I saw firsthand the impact of women's efforts inside and outside the home from watching my wonderful mother, Nancy. A nurse who trained at Hopkins, she balanced the demands of raising our family with her work at our rural hospital on the Eastern Shore.

Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may—cost what it may—inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto—NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS

Some sins, some evils in communities, could be best removed by the virtuous efforts of individuals composing these communities, but it was not so with slavery. That is such a monstrous system, such a giant crime, that it begets a character favorable to its own existence, vanquishing the moral perception, and blinding the moral vision of all who come in contact with it; and a nation has not the moral energy necessary to its removal.

Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts.

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and I was no exception in the matter of this popular gambit.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.