Home / Topics / Effort Quotes

Effort Quotes

Browse 6933 quotes about Effort.

Effort Quotes

“The largest single contributor to Iraq's security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces.”

People Force Effort Steps Security Iraq Various Steps Forward Contributors Security Forces

Author:Craig L. Thomas

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

Knows Play Government Individual Force Causes Natural Effort Economy Taken Bases Investment Accountability

Author:Mike Lee

“And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental realities: poverty and paranoia. The persistence of poverty generates levels of despair that deepen social conflict the escalation of paranoia produces levels of distrust that reinforce cultural division. Rae is the most explosive issue in American life precisely because it forces us to confront the tragic facts of poverty and paranoia despair, and distrust. In short, a candid examination of race matters takes us to the core of the crisis of American democracy (p. 107).”

Source: Race Matters: With a New Introduction

“As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way.”

Way Want Trying Force Effort Support Produce Approach Machines Blind Voting Voters Blindness Trails Better Ways County Paperless

Author:David Dixon

“As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.”

Source: THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…

“All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.”

Real Action Individual Force Effort Acting Exercise Spring Energetic Spurs Real Freedom

Author:Anna Brackett

“It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving peace, where true safety lies.”

“There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.”

Should Success Individual Force Nations Effort Evidence Surround

Book:The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

Source: The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans

“It was through the Second World War that most of us suddenlyappreciated for the first time the power of man's concentrated efforts to understand and control the forces of nature.We were appalled by what we saw.”

Men World Firsts War Force Effort Saws First Time War Of The Worlds Second World War Forces Of Nature

Author:Vannevar Bush

“If the human intellect is allowed to impose a preconceived pattern on society, if our powers of reasoning are allowed to lay claim to a monopoly of creative effort... then we must not be surprised if society, as such, ceases to function as a creative force.”

Ifs Humans Force Effort Creative Function Claims Lays Patterns Intellect Cease Reasoning Monopoly

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Every possible effort should be made to stop recruiting for the Armed Forces. This may, and probably would, lead to some form of conscription being proposed or introduced. Thus would be provided a most favourable political platform upon which to fight the National Government.”

Should May Made Government Would Be Form Political Fighting Force Effort Platforms Armed Forces Conscription

Author:Stafford Cripps

“Possibly worst of all, from the standpoint of the dedicated enemies of freedom, the Internet is a world that libertarians - having been marginalized for three decades by the establishment media - have made their own, almost without effort. It's an alternative reality (unlike 'meat-space' we live in) in which - exactly like intelligence, bravery, or virtue - the human capacity for violence is not additive, and in which it's impossible to initiate force against anybody.”

“The endeavor of scientific research to see events in their more general connection in order to determine their laws, is a legitimate and useful occupation. Any protest against such efforts, in the name of freefom from restrictive conditions, would be fruitless if science did not naïvely identify the abstractions called rules and laws with the actually efficacious forces, and confuse the probability that B will follow A with the actual effort make B follow A.”

Ifs Would Be Law Order Names Force Effort Conditions Events Research Connections Determine Protest Occupation Endeavor Probability Abstraction Scientific Research

Author:Max Horkheimer

“If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.”

“Scholars have been arguing for a long time whether the Soviet Union could have been turned into some kind of social democracy. I doubt it myself. I think what Gorbachev didn't quite understand, until it was too late, is that his efforts at change unleashed new, certrifical forces he hadn't counted on. He opened the door a crack and a huge wind blew it open.”

“Remember, most of the things you think you need are ego trips designed to bolster your image and your perception of security.... You'll waste a lot of energy satisfying your ego only to find that, as soon as it's got what it wants, it ignores all your efforts and promptly nails another list of demands to your forehead. The ego will always try to force you to slave for its vision. I wouldn't stand for that BS if I were you.”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Trying Remember Energy Force Effort Vision Security Demand Ego Waste Perception Slave Lists Satisfying Nails Foreheads Ego Trip

Author:Stuart Wilde

“Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check thy force, Oft damp thy Vigour, and impede thy course; And trembling nerves compel thee to restrain Thy noble efforts, to contend with pain; Or Want (sad guest!) will in thy presence come, And breathe around her melancholy gloom: To Life's low cares will thy proud thought confine, And make her sufferings, her impatience, thine.”

Want Art Body Light Care Pain Suffering Courses Force Effort Danger Divine Proud Genius Lows Weakness Shining Breathe Noble Checks Thee Melancholy Nerves Guests Doom Impatience Gloom Trembling Damp

Book:Tales

Source: Tales

“I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.”

Knows Trying I Can Moments Body America Lying Force Nations Challenges Effort Careers Greatness Promise Harder Starting Privilege Deeper Your Body Shy Endeavor Dig Deep Troubled Times

Author:Barack Obama

“Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.”

Men Force Effort Fire Doomed Consuming Objectivity

Book:Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

Source: Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy

“There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort.”

Earth Purpose Force Effort Gossip Buried Rumor Crushed

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”

Action Law Force Effort Duty Elements Absorbing

Author:Roman Dmowski

“In war, force is used by the belligerents themselves, no effort being made to bring evildoers before a judicial body, each army acting as judge, jury and executioner.”

Made War Body Used Force Effort Acting Judging Army Jury Judicial Executioners

Book:Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

Source: Kirby Page and the social gospel: an anthology

“If we enjoy the benefits of peace, it is only because we have an excellent armed force and a fine socialist economy. Let us exert all efforts so that our further development may be strong and mighty, so that our numerous enemies may think well and long before they decide to attack our fatherland, and so that if they attack, they will quickly regret it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells May Long Strong Force Enjoy Effort Enemy Economy Regret Fine Development Benefits Excellent Socialist Armed Forces Fatherland Socialist Economy

Author:Kliment Voroshilov

“We don't have any intention whatsoever to use military force to solve the Palestinian problem. But when it comes to terror - when it comes to terror, I believe that military - the right military steps is a very, very complicated kind of warfare, where I make every effort not to escalate the situation.”

Believe Kind Use Problem Force I Believe Effort Situation Steps Military Intention Terror Complicated Solve Palestinian Warfare Military Force

Author:Ariel Sharon

“At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.”

People Long Would Be Suffering Force Process Difficult Effort Air Dog Military Treatment Ptsd Air Force Lengthy

Author:Robert Crais

“I'm sorry, there was an effort on the part of the president to have a status of forces agreement, and I concurred in that, and said that we should have some number of troops that stayed on. That was something I concurred with.”

Should Said Force President Numbers Effort Should Have Sorry Agreement Troops I'm Sorry

Author:Mitt Romney

“What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our party]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.”

People Fighting Force Wish Party Effort Failing Amount Taxes Bills Corporations Anxious Schedules Resorts Headlines Reduction Friction Splitting Tariffs

Author:William Howard Taft

“Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that the mysteries of the toilet shall not be suggested by it; that the steps to its completion shall be knocked away like the sculptor's ladder from the statue, and the mental force expended upon it be swept away out of sight like the chips on the studio floor.”

Force Effort Steps Mystery Fashion Style Expression Please Sight Studios Chips Ladders Toilets Statues Completion Sculptors Swept Away

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Instead of giving the effort the level of attention needed, the Air Force has wasted a year doing very little to end our reliance on Russian rocket engines, if the Air Force is unwilling to do what is necessary to meet the 2019 deadline, they are going to have to figure out how to meet our space launch needs without the RD-180 (Russian engine).”

Ifs Needs Giving Years Littles Ends Force Space Levels Effort Attention Air Figures Needed Engines Reliance Rockets Unwilling Deadline Air Force

Author:John McCain

“Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.”

Soul Spiritual Force Causes Effort Intellectual Equipment Soul Force

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.”

Way Use Fighting Force Wish Effort Enemy Military Battle Vices Preparation Tunes Swings Commanders Vice Versa

Author:Bernard Law Montgomery

“As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.”

“Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.”

Ifs Men Giving Moments Lasts Passion Names Force Goal Effort Design Victory Giving Up Contrary Driving Historian Vigorous Driving Force Perseverence

Author:Anita Roddick

“In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.”

Thinking Men Needs Wells Doe Soul Government Force Social Answers Effort Opinion Support Stronger Raises Absence Well Being Accustomed Counting Vigilant

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Imperialism has been defeated in many partial battles. But it remains a considerable force in the world, and we cannot expect its final defeat save through effort and sacrifice on the part of all of us.”

World Has Beens Force Effort Sacrifice Battle Remains Finals Defeat Defeated Imperialism

Book:Che Guevara Speaks

Source: Che Guevara Speaks

“Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a scarcely legible hieroglyphic; the language it was written in dies, a learned education and an imaginative effort are requisite to catch even a vestige of its original force. Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.”

Mind Age Dies Courses Language Force Effort Written Originals Inspired Immortal Relative Justification Verses Boast Imaginative Irrevocable Hieroglyphics

Book:The Life of Reason

Source: The Life of Reason

“This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I think that the dividing line today in the Greek political system is not the centre right or socialist, the real dividing line is between those parties and those political forces who really believe that Greece should stay in the Eurozone and make the efforts and change, and make the reforms and change the old and Mr Tsipras who is really resisting any kind of change in Greece.”

“Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the settlement activities and the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.”

People World Want Believe Country Force Causes Effort Activity Gains Logic Regard Aim Israel Occupation Palestine Ruthless Settlement Apartheid Legitimacy Countries Of The World

Author:Mahmoud Abbas

“The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action.”

Way Real Action Force Effort Consciousness Break Offers Pressure Resistance Unconscious Treatment Endeavour Break Through Repressed Discharge Weighing

Book:Beyond the Pleasure Principle

Source: Beyond the Pleasure Principle

“All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.”

People Made Age Force Effort

Author:Wangari Maathai

“The greatest forces in the world are being used against families and traditional family values. These values are being undermined in subtle and in not-so-subtle ways. Because of this assault on family values, it takes all of your best efforts to fortify your family. It takes hard work and planning. It takes sacrifice. 'In the setting of the family...may I suggest that we give more of ourselves.'”

World Way Giving May Hard Used Values Force Effort Sacrifice Hard Work Planning Setting Traditional Settings Our Family Subtle Assault Family Values Best Effort Traditional Family

Author:David O. McKay

“Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths... whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over”

Force Effort Vision Careers Path Progress Products Mets Forgiving Errors Insight Genuine Resistance Remarkable Mediocrity Career Path Backing Down

Book:Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

Source: Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012

“The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.”

Humans Doe Force Effort Depends Muscles Employed Fatigue Frequency

Book:On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures

Source: On The Economy Of Machinery And Manufactures