Quotes About Efforts

To make life worth living, must honor your commitment and give recognition to those who value your ability, honor your efforts, cheer you on moving forward and celebrate your success.

Science can teach us, and I think our own hearts can teach us, no longer to look around for imaginary supports, no longer to invent allies in the sky, but rather to look to our own efforts here below to make this world a fit place to live in, instead

And politicians in Washington and Tallahassee are still undermining efforts to fix the dysfunctional ecosystem, even as they bloviate about its beauty and majesty and irreplaceability.

The English Puritans who migrated to Plymouth, Boston, New Haven, and other North American sites did so in order to continue the efforts to purify self, church, and society that were being frustrated in the mother country. Of many striking features of the Puritans, one of the most remarkable was their zeal in developing a Christian mind.45

Remember our definition of a winning attitude: a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better.

All long-term social change comes from the successful efforts of one or another struggling organizations to capture the minds of a hard core of future leaders.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.

I believe love is enough to win someone's heart, positive attitude is enough to overcome hard times, persistent efforts are enough to realize your dreams.

Your best efforts will never be enough when your best efforts are being wasted on the wrong person. We may love the wrong person, cry for the wrong person. But one thing is sure, mistakes help us find the right person. Sometimes the right person for you was there all along. You just didnt see it because the wrong person was blocking your sight.

In our life, we don't need to explain how much we love a person. It depends on them how they appreciate the efforts that we do for them to be contented.

The only natural law I've witnessed in three decades of observing successful people's efforts to become more successful is this: People will do something—including changing their behavior—only if it can be demonstrated that doing so is in their own best interests as defined by their own values.

we feel regret's sharp sting when we reflect on the opportunities squandered, the choices deferred, the efforts not made

Por lo tanto recibimos bendiciones espirituales por la gracia de un tercero y no por nuestros propios esfuerzos. Dos ideas opuestas no pueden ser las dos ciertas: que la gracia es tan poco costosa que cualquiera en cualquier lugar la puede ganar; y a la vez, la gracia es tan preciosa que sólo podemos obtenerla por medio de los méritos de un hombre: Jesucristo.

As long as a person is in the world he cannot by his own efforts rid himself of sin, because the world is bent upon evil. The people of the world are the slaves of the devil. If we are not in the Kingdom of Christ, it is certain we belong to the kingdom of Satan and we are pressed into his service with every talent we possess.

Nothing is prettier, better, or holier in the sight of men than idolatry and godlessness adorned with hypocrisy and a show of piety. An evil deed in the sight of God, however, is one that is undertaken without faith and the Word, by our own efforts, however good and beautiful it may appear.

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.

If my father discovered my secret, that for some time now I have been foiling his efforts to have the hart, I would lose my thumbs indeed, son or no," he said. "But it is cold, and I would have my clothes back.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry. Another

One of the first lessons from Stoicism, then, is to focus our attention and efforts where we have the most power and then let the universe run as it will. This will save us both a lot of energy and a lot of worry.

Leadership is a process of social influence which works to increase the efforts of others in pursuit of a goal. It happens when people with a vision inspire others to make a change happen despite obstacles.

He had been studying the writings of some local alchemists, he said, but remained baffled by their bizarre symbols and opaque texts. So, he composed a parody of their efforts, making incomprehensible claims by means of unintelligible symbols, and forwarded it to the president of the society. The president, apparently understanding the paper not at all, drew the obvious conclusion that its author was a genius.

2. The self-image can be changed. Numerous case histories have shown that one is never too young or too old to change his self-image and thereby start to live a new life. One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.