Efforts Quotes (3708 Quotes)

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

First of all I want to congratulate Nicholls State for a tremendous effort, ... Thats a good football team thats going to win a lot of games. Its a well-coached team and they had their offense in form today. We made a lot of adjustments through the course of the game to try and stop their running game. Tracy Porter stealing the ball is a play that will go down in history. We are 2-0 right now. There are a lot of teams that would love to be 2-0 and the Hoosiers are.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

We are going to have to keep the effort to find some mutual agreement at a later date. We're not going to do that today, ... We certainly have to work to extend unemployment benefits.

We recommend keeping your cars well maintained, checking air pressure in your tires and combining errands into one trip to save gas. If everyone did that, the conservation efforts would make a huge difference on the price factor.

We just had too many turnovers and Alma had too many offensive boards. I don't think it was Alma's pressure that bothered us because we've faced a 1-3-1 zone before. We get a run in the second half and then turn it over four straight times. But we played hard and I was proud of their effort.

Students do not fully appreciate the amount of effort that must be expended to graduate from college.

Despite our best efforts, we haven't been able to secure consistently strong channel positions on cable systems across the country, which has hindered retail sales and profitability at Shop At Home.

We looked like a team that went outside for the first time. Our effort was that way and that's not acceptable.

Everybody on our sidelines thought that we could win that game and all our guys thought we could win that game. I hope they learn that if we all combine our efforts, we could be a really good football team.

I know that I speak for the whole world in offering them my heartfelt sympathy and any assistance that the United Nations can give, ... We will be happy to work with other parts of the international community to support the efforts of President Bush and his administration, the American Red Cross, and other U. S. relief organizations who have been our partners in the past.

It's not disappointing to lose we have lost before, but to lose with little or no effort is upsetting. When you don't listen to what's being told it becomes rather frustrating. Like I told the guys, I will tell you what I want you to do and when it doesn't work, I'll take the blame but if you don't do what you are asked nothing can work. We had four guys doing one thing and one guy doing something else. It was one of our worst outings of the year.

I cannot argue with the truth. I'm not going to try and counter any points. That's the fact. It's certainly not from a lack of effort on my part. I can honestly say that. . . . I'm just going to keep trying. That's all I can say.

If majority control of either chamber is lost, it makes him a lame duck overnight. He loses control over, potentially, funding for the war effort, control over ethics investigations, and over the ability to move any of his agenda items.

It is important that we speak with one voice on this issue in the European Union, uphold our common values but also make an effort toward de-escalation.

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

An activist is someone who makes an effort to see problems that are not being addressed and then makes an effort to make their voice heard. Sometimes there are so many things that it's almost impossible to make your voice heard in every area, but you can sure try.

Give a lot of credit to Maryland. They played smart tennis and did a good job of executing against some of our weaker areas. Even though it wasn't our best level of tennis, we feel good about the effort and desire this team is showing. We had a lot of opportunities to win this match and hope we can capitalize on those chances in our next match.

While it is clear that more needs to be done to reduce illegal crossing, the situation in California has improved significantly in the last few years and illustrates that significant progress is attainable if we join together in a dedicated effort,

I don't think today and yesterday she was as good as she was against Florida for whatever reason, but today was good enough for a no-hitter. It's so great to see a senior who's put in the work and the effort in the off-season and the pre-season to perform at the highest level her last year.

I thought overall it was a terrific defensive effort. And offensively we really made the extra pass, moved the basketball, and these guys had really good games.

We didn't lose because the effort wasn't there. We just didn't execute on the offensive end their half-court defense was tremendous.

We want to give it another effort, another 24 hours or less, to see if we can't find a way to resolve how we can proceed prior to the time we'd have a vote,

We're proud of the effort Lubbock has made in order to give (the athletes) a new start,

Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

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

We let one slip away. I'm still proud of how my kids played. They played hard. We had three great looks at the basket in the last minute. We had opportunities, but didn't convert at crunch time. I wasn't disappointed in my kids' effort. They did an outstanding job.

The game plan was to give him a lot of looks. It was a team effort. When he gets the ball, everybody on the court has to know where he is.

We are a city of four million people. Did we take care of everyone Probably not. Are there homeless people with mental difficulties we couldn't help Yes. We've made an effort to help. In our disaster planning do we cure the problem of homelessness No.

If both sides decided they wanted to redouble their efforts, they could conclude in the time we have left. We have to determine if both sides have the will.

I fully appreciate the efforts Rob and his staff gave in his eight years here. He accomplished many goals and will always be remembered as a great Sun Devil. His work ethic and professionalism will never be forgotten and always will be appreciated by the Sun Devil family.

That's been a topic of discussion for the last couple of years. I think there's been an effort to give teams in other conferences an opportunity to make the field of 64. There are always teams in power conferences that felt like they played in leagues tha

It was a great team effort. I thought all of our guys came out and played well. Calvin and Kendrick both made some big shots and they did it at a crucial part of the game.

It was fun. It was a good all around effort. The guys behind me played some great defense.

We have to look at what we can control, and we had a lot of chances at the net. ... We can't do any more than we have been, we just have to keep coming with this kind of effort and the wins will come.

We like to score and make a lot of players happy. I think it's a style of basketball that's attractive to athletes that want to get out and get it up and down the court. Most importantly, the guys just played hard out there and it was a total team effort. A lot of different guys contributed to the win, plus it keeps us undefeated in the conference.

Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort. When we work on defensive skills, they have worked hard. We have better team chemistry they all get along. Last year it was an individual thing.

Mission-critical data that goes missing could result in legal liabilities and regulatory compliance violations -- an intolerable situation. One would expect that security-conscious organizations would include tape encryption as a standard security defense. Unfortunately, this hypothesis simply isn't true. In a survey of 388 storage professionals, ESG found that only 7 percent of users reported that they always encrypt their backup data while 60 percent said that they never do. There will likely be many more instances of lost tapes, which may lead to embarrassing public disclosures and expensive notification efforts.

To ensure Green Olympics not only needs the government support and the efforts of BOC OG, but also depends on the participation of the public. The release of the logo will help to promote the various educational activities organized by BOCOG to encourage citizens to live a green life, to take part in green activities and to support the Green Olympics.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

I just want to give myself the best opportunity to be prepared. I did play in the Senior Bowl and I felt like I just wanted to have enough time to really put forth my best effort.

We couldn't win a puck battle. I thought our effort was fine, but we made some glaring mistakes and lost battles.

It was an effective p.r. effort by the Cowen group, I don't think there's any doubt about that. All things being equal, we wouldn't have gone to a fifth bowl. ... Although we were moving in an evolutionary way toward more inclusion, whether we would have

Absolutely, the effort was better. If we want to compete against the top teams in the league, we've got to play like that. Actually, we need to play like that every night, no matter who the opponent is.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

Sen. Rita Days and I were committed to maintaining a safe and friendly emissions program even though the effort was to decentralize it. Decentralize did not mean the program was going away its a federal mandate. Our six amendments protect the public and make the often inconvenient process of emissions testing as painless as possible.

I strongly recommend that we suggest to the administration that they quickly decide on some kind of an executive headquarters and chief recovery person so that all of this effort can be coordinated, ... We can have all the hearings and ideas we want, but we're going to be running in each other's way pretty soon, as are the Cabinet members.

I think we just played the most talented team in the league on perhaps their best night of the year. I'm really proud of our effort.

I told the guys a little while ago that I hope we learned a lesson tonight. That's the kind of effort we're going to get from our opponent every night in the state playoffs, and we've got to be ready to match it and exceed it. To be quite honest, South Central deserved this win tonight. They out-hustled us. When you work that hard, things go your way. They made a play, and my hat's off to them.