Quotes About Effort

The problem with buttering up the boss is that bosses tend to move on, which can mean a lot of wasted butter.

The full might of the German secret services on the Iberian Peninsula was now unleashed in an effort to obtain the British documents that the British, with equal determination, were trying to put into their hands.

with is arms heavy-light from having just bench-press three hundred pounds...

If you don't have to struggle, you don't really have to get smart or strong, you just drift along.

It takes a lot of effort to make something look effortless

Despite a sincere effort, the SEC was not well suited to supervising the investment banks.

I asked if he could weigh in on the issue and he said he would try.

The race was on to find a solution, but neither Bill nor I had anything concrete yet to report.

I saw exhaustion in everyone's face.

and employees at all levels were prepared to work as many hours as needed.

My gratitude was heartfelt. Our response to the crisis had been a team effort. But

You remained determined, open-minded, and creative in your effort to do what was best for the country.

Hank was initially noncommittal. He knew that he and his team would have to lead the effort to develop a legislative proposal and sell it to Congress.

There was simply no historical precedent for solving a financial crisis of this magnitude without significant taxpayer dollars and the political will to undertake the effort.

We did everything we could think of to avoid it.

However, markets saw the European effort as vague and insufficiently ambitious.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

It's always the same thing: People are always out there doing really good work, both young bands who never get heard for one reason or another, and older bands that aren't getting played because maybe they're not current. And it's always wrong. It's wrong on all levels, so I don't know what you do about it. It is what it is.

If they only showed this much spunk when it came to containing the terrorists I don't think we would have such a problem.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. en.path-2-happiness.com

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.