Effort Quotes - page 18

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds. (Max Cannon)
I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak. View quote
Meg Ryan
We can do things the cheap way, the simple way, for the short-term and without regard for the future. Or, we can make the extra effort, do the hard work, absorb the criticism and make decisions that will cause a better future. View quote
Mike Rounds
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. View quote
Mike Schmidt
People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?' View quote
Philip Green
When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line? View quote
Patricia Ireland
This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet. View quote
Paul Cellucci
We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team. View quote
Paul Tagliabue
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there. View quote
Payne Stewart
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet. View quote
Robert Caro
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. (Ralph Adams Cram)
One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act. View quote
Roger Wicker
I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency. View quote
Ryan Seacrest
Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. View quote
Richard Ben-Veniste
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. View quote
Richard G. Scott
Transforming a brand into a socially responsible leader doesn't happen overnight by simply writing new marketing and advertising strategies. It takes effort to identify a vision that your customers will find credible and aligned with their values. View quote
Simon Mainwaring
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. View quote
Spencer Bachus
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. View quote
Sue Kelly
Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect. View quote
Scott Hamilton
People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway. View quote
Tim Vine
Delaware's firefighters put their lives in jeopardy every day in an effort to keep families safe. (Tom Carper)
I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject that's really worth the time and effort you'll put in. View quote
Tracy Kidder
Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown. View quote
Thomas Becket
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort. View quote
Thomas Lynch
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty. View quote
Vanessa Carlton