The heights by great men reached and kept Were not obtained by sudden flight,But they, while their companions slept,Were toiling upward in the night

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.

Somehow the people who do as they please seem to get along just about as well as those who are always trying to please others.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

There is merit in the attempt, and a whole lot accomplished along the way.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.

Whether our efforts are, or not, favored by life, let us be able to say, when we come near to the great goal, I have done what I could.

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach.

About the only thing that comes without effort is old age..

When you reach for the stars you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself it is the same thing but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions you will have spanned the universe.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

I visualize the game. I think about who I am guarding, the things he likes to do.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

It seems to me we are losing our way in an effort to get the ratings.

Nothing can come of nothing.

Its not about perfect. Its about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day thats where transformation happens. Thats how change occurs.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Yet the effort to inform the public also encouraged responsible public discussion that succeeded in developing a consensus for the measured approach that many scientists supported.

Your future is not determined by the conditions around you. It is determined by your faith your choices and your efforts.

Walls dont fall without effort.

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

Do not waste a minute not a second in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.

The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

He was a silly guy. Out do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

There is never a traffic jam created from people going the extra mile

If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want !

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. It is when they are in love and reading a love letter.

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.

Too aim is not enough, you must hit!

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every dayhe strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed but woke the next morningelated for another try.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times.

Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

All the effort in the world wont matter if youre not inspired.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I want you to start a crusade in you life to dare to be your best.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

So with slight efforts, how should one obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

You write with ease to show your breedingBut easy writings curst hard reading.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

The best angle from which to approach a problem is the Try angle.- Source Unknown

The easiest way to gain someones trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy assuming youre just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.

Teachers are sort of faced with a thankless task, because no matter how good they are, unless they find a way to personally rationalize the rewards of their effort, nobody else is really going to do it for them en masse.

If youre going to do something strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If youre going to halfass it why bother

The master of the garden is the one who waters it trims the branches plants the seeds and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden you are but an acolyte.

Team effort goes vain when individual effort is in the wrong direction

If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.

If a man has done his best, what else is there?

My fellow students there were very smart, but the really novel thing was that they actually seemed to put a lot of effort into their school work. By the end of my first semester there, I began to get into that habit as well.

The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort.

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.

Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.

Forget about style; worry about results.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

The good life doesnt knock on the door. Joy is a job.

Im bred for farm work and for such folk the only As you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows theyll try without let up to break you.

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Its no use saying We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

A Train was born without any effort – if was like writing a letter to a friend.

Whenever a man does the best he can, then that is all he can do.

Relationships require an equal amount of effort from both people.

But I felt it necessary to be part of the war effort and I enlisted in the Navy to be a flyer.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

He is beginning to master wisdom when he tries to learn how not to try.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them

No said Father. Just do the best you can and dont let it worry you. In that way youll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb tide or the flow; each rain drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe.

The reward of a work is to have produced it the reward of effort is to havegrown by it.

In the game of life we all receive a set of variables and limitations in the field of play. We can either focus on the lack thereof or empower ourselves to create better realities with the pieces we play the game with.

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

Only superefforts count.

The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre arranged crossing site.- Bo Gritz

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.

Beyond the mountains there are mountains again.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Dont put your all into someone if they treat you like dirt.

Writing fiction is… an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.

If youre not gonna go all the way why go at all

Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.

Es saku jums jau dienas simt un piecas lai pui dabtu ir jnoliecas.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

When we are reporting the news, we make every effort to report it in as factual way as possible.

The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.

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

Work hard put maximum effort and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

Further, science is a collaborative effort.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.

The highest excellence is like water. The excellence of water appears in its benefiting all things, and in its occupying, without striving, the low place which all men dislike.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

No one ever drowned in sweat.

Healeys First Law Of Holes When in one stop digging.

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

Without going to what I think is my limit. I always say that my ideal is to get pole with the minimum effort, and to win the race at the slowest speed possible.

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

Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Gift aint what you take by effort as swag aint what you worthy have.

He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point the next day would be a day of doom the day of final effort or disaster the last gasp.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.

World records are only borrowed.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

William of OccamIt is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.

While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled.

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value purpose and a reason.

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no one can live.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

...when people already know theyre deficient they have nothing to lose by trying.

Relationships end too soon because people stop putting the same effort to keep you as they did to win you.

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives.

Some 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.

Bush and Blair combined their efforts to deceive both nations in a carefully coordinated manner, more so than anyone is willing to point out in the media.

A sign of power in a man is not only when people follow what he suggests but also when people make a conscious effort to do the exact opposite of what he suggests.

Trying and getting hurt cant possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Much effort, much prosperity.

I had done all that I could and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected be it ever so little.

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.

One bulb at a time. There was no other way to do it. No shortcutssimply loving the slow process of planting. Loving the work as it unfolded. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.

Think of it Dad. What if I have it in me to do that and I dont try

Prayer faith and vision plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brewThe magical spell to your dreams coming true. nbsp

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

No matter our talent we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.

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.

Of course in fairness I must remind you of this that we writers are the most lilylivered of all craftsmen. We expect more for the most peewee efforts than any other people.

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.

It is not given to us to know what difference we can make and perhaps we can make no difference at all. But that is no reason not to make the attempt said Saliman quietly. The Light shines more brightly in the darkness.