Quotes About Effort

When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

We must trust as if it all depended on God and work as if it all depended on us

We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.

Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

Trust that things will be okay - especially if you put in the time and effort to make them be okay.

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted.

You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.

In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.

The truth of the matter is, we're not far away from where we should be. We can complain about the problem or we can go out and solve the problem. I choose to go out and try to solve the problem.

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

I'm so frightened of these two people, Bill and Hillary [Clintons], that I'm making an all-out effort to make the truth known about these horrific practices.

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

None of us are entitled to revelation without effort on our part. Answers from God don't just magically appear. If we want to grow spiritually, the Lord expects us to ask questions and seek answers.

The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.

There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.

With a woman he's crazy about, he'll put in all the overtime in the world. He'll be doing things for you, he'll be considerate, he'll want to please you, he'll try to cheer you up if you are down, and he will enjoy every moment because you are the person he values most.

When she looked back at Charlotte, she said, "I think your austerity measures are working. You're visibly farther from Maximum Tolerable Chins than you were a few days ago." Charlotte patted herself under her jaw. "I will not bore you with tales of hardship, but it has been dreadful. The things I do in service to my vanity.

craves control more than sociability. She will email a "Sorry" instead of delivering a face-to-face apology; at work, as in her personal life, when she faces a difficult conversation, she makes every effort to sidestep it with an email.

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it – the rest it's just movement.

Making peace is not a simple endeavor. It is a constant struggle. But its complexity should not overshadow its purpose.

Failing honestly and with integrity was something I could accept—but only if I was sure that my efforts to succeed had been worthy of the trust he had placed in me.