You can’t control the outcome, but you can control your effort.

The goal of our efforts is to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

If you can’t win, be prepared to be satisfied with giving your best effort.

Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

The establishment wonders why we can’t get more of the black vote. It’s because it’s not doing the things necessary to establish a deeper relationship with the black community. Most black people don’t think alike. Most black people just vote alike.

When it comes to personal consciousness evolution, doing nothing or making a minimal effort is an intentional choice that, as any choice, produces consequences. In this game there are no spectators or bystanders – innocent or otherwise

We plan, we toil, we suffer – in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol’s eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.

My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.

I’ve – well, I’ve been down in the Pit,” Joe succeeded in blurting out. “I must confess that you look like it – very much like it indeed.” Mr. Bronson spoke severely, but if ever by great effort he conquered a smile, that was the time. “I presume,” he went on, “that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco. Am I right?

I’m more interested in plot than theme, but I hope my values find their way into my stories: kindness, sympathy, effort, and humor!

Meaningful work, creative work, thoughtful work, important work – this type of effort takes stretches of uninterrupted time to get into the zone. But in the modern office such long stretches just can’t be found. Instead, it’s just one interruption after another.

john Brown’s effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection

If I am playing a game, I want to give my best, and that’s the only thing that helps me sleep peacefully at night.

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even…malicious.

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk.

Mankind has failed miserably in its effort to devise a rational system of government. The art of government is the exclusive possession of quacks and frauds. It has been so since the earliest days, and it will probably remain so until the end of time.

Of the 1,223 new medicines developed between 1975 and 1997, just 13 were for tropical diseases. Only four sprang from the pharmaceutical industry’s efforts to cure humans. None were found on purpose

People choose to read, and it takes effort. It’s not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It’s more than a hobby.

Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort

If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Success is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes

There is no substitute for hard work

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration

I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.

Success is not an overnight phenomenon; it’s the result of consistent effort.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation…it must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world

Practice isn’t just about putting in the time. It’s about putting in the effort every day.

How easy it is to be “deep”: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

There are no sacrifices in vain. There is a reward even for the effort to do good.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless

Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress.

You can’t always control the outcome, but you can control your effort and attitude.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

It’s fun to work the robotic arm in part because it’s really a team effort.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.

Effort is between you and you.

Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge that. Because effort is between you and you.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed

I was never so naïve or foolish to think that if you merely believe in something it happens. You must struggle for it.

There is no success without suffering. I think that the word ‘suffering’ was meant to mean tremendous effort and direction.

Push your limit to the absolute extreme.

Success at anything will always come down to this: focus and effort. And we control both.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.

You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development, physically or intellectually, without effort; and effort means work.

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

You can do it, put your back into it.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny

These the days of my life. Extra money I’m maxing. To get it much I’m on a stratch.

The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.

When you decide to move your life to the next level of accomplishment, you must fasten you mental and spiritual seat belts because it is going to be a while before you reach that comfortable level again.

Your dream was given to you. If someone else can’t see it for you, that’s fine, it was given to you and not them. It’s your dream. Hold it. Nourish it. Cultivate it!

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

There is no other road to genius than through voluntary self-effort.

Where failure is experienced, it is the individual, not the method, which has failed. If you try and fail, make another effort, and still another, until you succeed.

Nothing (in life) is given. Everything is earned.

No matter how good one individual is, it takes a whole team to win a championship.

Greatness is defined by how much you want to put into what you do.

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Useful undertakings which require sustained attention and vigorous precision in order to succeed often end up by being abandoned, for, in America, as elsewhere, the people move forward by sudden impulses and short-lived efforts.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Our invisible work at the improvement of our soul is the most important work in the world, and all other visible kinds of work are useful only when we do this major work.

So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing – and then my tits explode at the end. It’s not as easy as it looks!

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I’m using my artistry to heal, uplift, and inspire.

To be honest, I never realized it. I never really thought that I was going to be really good or not. I just wanted to make my dream come true