Quotes about No Effort

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. Votes: 6

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. Votes: 5

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Votes: 4

It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort. Votes: 4

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful. Votes: 4

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic. Votes: 4

You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. Votes: 4

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking. Votes: 4

... no effort based on love is wasted. Votes: 3

There is no effort without error or shortcoming. Votes: 3

Obviously being relaxed doesn't mean that you make no effort. Votes: 3

It's not worth having if it comes with no effort. Votes: 3

Dying isn’t like living; it requires no effort at all. Votes: 3

Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. Votes: 3

Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Votes: 3

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure. Votes: 3

Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. Votes: 3

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort. Votes: 3

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability. Votes: 3

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it. Votes: 3

No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful. Votes: 3

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority. Votes: 3

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures. Votes: 3

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful. Votes: 3

It takes no effort to be ordinary. Ordinary is not even a challenge. You can do nothing and be ordinary. Votes: 3

The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire. Votes: 3

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful Votes: 3

Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort. Votes: 3

[Ashcroft vowed to] spare no effort to preserve the rights of all our citizens to pledge allegiance to the American flag. Votes: 3

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. Votes: 3

The work of a master reeks not of the sweat of the brow - suggests no effort - and is finished from its beginning. Votes: 3

Those activities at which you excel with no effort at all those are the ones you ought to pursue to the detriment of others. Votes: 3

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort. Votes: 3

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most? Votes: 3

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness. Votes: 3

Travelers, it is late. Life's sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Have a clear goal and plan. Waste no effort in your journey. Be strong, committed, and effective and you will experience a level of success few will ever know. Votes: 3

Genuinely social people never ceased to amaze him. Their brains seemed to generate an inexhaustible fund of things to say, naturally, with no effort, out of nothing at all. Votes: 3

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you. Votes: 3

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves. Votes: 3

[The overthrow of the Castro regime] is the top priority of the US government. - all else is secondary - no time, no effort, or manpower is to be spared. Votes: 3

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend. Votes: 3

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it. Votes: 3

Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task. Votes: 3

An enormous number of people come to the USA legally and then simply overstay their visas because we make no effort to hold them accountable to that or uphold the law. Votes: 3

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state. Votes: 3

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man. Votes: 3

Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome. Votes: 3

We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. Votes: 3

Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere. Votes: 3

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness. Votes: 3

Exactly who does use the safe-haven laws is difficult to discern. Most states make no effort to study the cases or compile any data, and the anonymous nature of the process makes outside research nearly impossible. Votes: 3

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction. Votes: 3

The world, the future, is now within you as your past, as experience, skill in technique, and the rich, everlasting mystery is found to be childish you that, at the time, you made no effort to possess. Votes: 3

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings. Votes: 3

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light. Votes: 3

But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party. Votes: 3

The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person. Votes: 3

We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions. Votes: 3

The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace. Votes: 3

Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort. Votes: 3

Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way of finding those who put forth their best even when their situation seems bleak. Votes: 3

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat; who strives valiantly; who errs and may fall again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming. Votes: 3

And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today. Votes: 3

Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that. Votes: 3

There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either directly or as foreseeable effects of violent acts, whether the actor is a non-state individual or group or the state. Votes: 3

When you have learned how to decide with God all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. Votes: 3

Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river? Votes: 3

It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity. Votes: 3

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies. Votes: 3

I make no effort to predict the course of general business or the stock market. Period. However, currently there are practices snowballing in the security markets and business world which, while devoid of short term predictive value, bother me as to possible long term consequences. Votes: 3

The campaigns of Steve Forbes, Pat Buchanan, Ross Perot, and John McCain all outperformed expectations on their support from independent voters. They made no effort to shy away from ideology, but conveyed to voters that their policies were driven by principle, not party talking points. Votes: 3

It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. ...When you have the experience of love, either giving it or receiving it, you become magnanimous to the rest of the world. That’s why people in love can do extraordinary things!. Votes: 3

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace. Votes: 3

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions. Votes: 3

It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible. Votes: 3

He reached for her and kissed her. It was all at once passionate, as if there was too much in him to contain. He was immediately swept up in it. It took no effort, the difference between swimming on your own and being washed away in a flood. Votes: 3

You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere, and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me. Votes: 3

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort. Votes: 2

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live. Votes: 2

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. Votes: 2

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. Votes: 2

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. Votes: 2

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate. Votes: 2

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. Votes: 2

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves. Votes: 2

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make. Votes: 2

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Votes: 2

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists. Votes: 2

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. Votes: 2

Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets. Votes: 2

No executive devotes effort to proving himself wrong. Votes: 0

No extraordinary result ever came from mediocre effort. Votes: 0

No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk. Votes: 0

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort. Votes: 0

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged. Votes: 0

No one makes a million dollars with minimal effort unless they win the lottery. Votes: 0

If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement. Votes: 0

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk. Votes: 0

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. Votes: 0

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death. Votes: 0

All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. Votes: 0

A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident. Votes: 0

Surely there is no road of effort so steep but a loving deed may soften its hardshness. Votes: 0

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich. Votes: 0

With effort, reach to effortlessness. With seeking, reach to a state of no-seeking. With mind, arrive at no-mind. Votes: 0

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people. Votes: 0

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse. Votes: 0

Out of every fruition of success, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary. Votes: 0

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm! Votes: 0

No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment. Votes: 0

There is no getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness. Votes: 0

No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love. Votes: 0

No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else. Votes: 0

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. Votes: 0

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes. Votes: 0

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good. Votes: 0

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes. Votes: 0

Moving. Someone said this to me a long time ago, it's bhuddist saying, I think: 'There is no wasted effort'. Votes: 0

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort. Votes: 0

That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services. Votes: 0

I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. Votes: 0

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin. Votes: 0

Effort is fully replenishable. There is no need to save any of it. Leave every bit you have on the playing field Votes: 0

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. Votes: 0

With regard to performance, commitment, effort, dedication, there is no middle ground. Or you do something very well or not at all. Votes: 0

Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility. Votes: 0

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy. Votes: 0

There's no substitute for hard work and effort beyond the call of duty. That is what strengthens the soul and ennobles one's character. Votes: 0

Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams. Votes: 0

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. Votes: 0

To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time. Votes: 0

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Votes: 0

For I consider the character of no man affected by a want of success, provided he has made an honest effort to succeed. Votes: 0

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. Votes: 0

There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship. Votes: 0

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. Votes: 0

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. Votes: 0

There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children. Votes: 0

You're saying no ninety-seven times out of a hundred, and most founders find they have to make a very conscious effort to do this. Votes: 0

Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty. Votes: 0

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. Votes: 0

The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. Votes: 0

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands. Votes: 0

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. Votes: 0

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost. Votes: 0

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat. Votes: 0

My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men. Votes: 0

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. Votes: 0

If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession. Votes: 0

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. Votes: 0

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in. Votes: 0

The well-marked path to knowledge is open to anyone willing to make the effort to follow it, though no one will ever quite reach its end. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America. Votes: 0

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no. Votes: 0

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. Votes: 0

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. Votes: 0

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle. Votes: 0

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once. Votes: 0

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort. Votes: 0

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. Votes: 0

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart. Votes: 0

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it. Votes: 0

I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. Votes: 0

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. Votes: 0

No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any other single factor to make impossible a total war effort. Votes: 0

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived. Votes: 0

Success is processional. It's the result of a series of small disciplines that lead us into habitual patterns of success that no longer require consistent will or effort. Votes: 0

They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come. Votes: 0

Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift. Votes: 0

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended. Votes: 0

Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat. Votes: 0

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware. Votes: 0

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. Votes: 0