“To the lack of incentive to effort, which is the awful shadow under which we live, may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.” MayEffortYouthShadowRuinsAwfulScoreIncentivesWrecksVisualization Author:Mary Church Terrell
“After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.” IfsNeedsLongImportantEffortPayAttentionBrainKnowledgeNovelYouthPeriodsAreasCriticalLastingSurprisingInitialsLong Lasting Author:Norman Doidge
“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.” ShouldHumansEndsCharacterViewsEffortEducationPrinciplesTeachGenerationsLandMankindYouthIntegrityFameSucceedAchievementDeedsNobleChiefsHallsEstablishmentCeremonyStatuesMonumentComes And GoesUsefulnessUprightnessNoble Deeds Author:Alexander H. Stephens
“Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.” MenHumansLyingNationsWealthEffortRolesYouthCollegeProudCapacityInstitutionsFoundationUniversityMakersGraduatesKnowledgeableRebuildingAdministratorsCollege GraduatesHuman Capacity Author:Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
“We Americans, with our terrific emphasis on youth, action, and material success, certainly tend to belittle the afternoon of life and even to pretend it never comes. We push the clock back and try to prolong the morning, over-reaching and over-straining ourselves in the unnatural effort. ... In our breathless attempts we often miss the flowering that waits for afternoon.” TryingActionWaitingEffortMorningMissingYouthMaterialsAgingClockReachingAfternoonEmphasisTerrificUnnaturalFloweringBelittleBreathless Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Team Obama continues to dominate new media, spending far more effort and money than Team Romney in targeted online youth outreach.” EffortTeamMediaYouthSpendingOnlineRomneyInspirational TeamNew MediaOutreach Author:Jennifer Granholm
“The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.” AgeNextEffortYouthFitGratitudeRewardsDuesEsteemGovernors Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin
“From my earliest youth I have regarded the connection between Ireland and Great Britain as the curse of the Irish nation, and felt convinced, that while it lasted, this country would never be free or happy. In consequence, I determined to apply all the powers which my individual efforts could move, in order to separate the two countries.” TwoCountryMovingOrderIndividualNationsFeltEffortYouthConsequenceConnectionsDeterminedConvincedCurseBritainIrelandGreat BritainTwo CountriesIndividual Effort Author:Theobald of Bec
“I know the team, as a whole, has had an impact on the youth of the church, and on the missionary efforts throughout the world.” KnowsWorldWholeChurchEffortTeamYouthImpactMissionary Author:LaVell Edwards
“I've always looked at people like Carine Roitfeld, Donatella Versace, DVF...people who when you walk on a set you feel like they still have so much excitement for what they're doing every day and they just have so much youth even though they've been doing it for so long. Every day just working to keep a young spirit - because even when you're young that's hard to do, because you get so caught up in things. I just think it's so important to make an effort every day to have a young spirit. Then when you get older, you always kind of keep that.” PeopleThinkingKindLongImportantSpiritEffortYouthExcitementCaught UpVersace Author:Gigi Hadid
“When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.” InspirationalMotivationalSuccessYoungWorkEffortYouthHard WorkFailureTenPerseveranceNineObservationKey To SuccessRoad To SuccessFear Of FailureDiligenceRecipe For SuccessBest WorkSuccess And FailureExamSuccess FailureInsistencePerserveranceFailure MotivationalMotivation And Hard WorkWork Hard Play HardExam Success Author:George Bernard Shaw
“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.” FeelsDoneEffortRaceGreaterYouthDiversitySocial JusticeMeritInjuryExpress Yourself Book:The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14 Source: The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14
“Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.” TodayEffortGenerationsYouthTablesSpendingEducatedConcreteObsceneIndustriousPicnicsYouth Of Today Author:Dean Koontz
“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself” MenLoveYearsHeartFeelingsAgeEarthLastsRememberJoyGrowsEffortSeaYouthColdConvictionDustVainHeatHandfulPerilLureTriumphantDeceitful Author:Joseph Conrad