Quotes of: Concerted-effort Keyword

...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert h...

James Agee

Triton: I'm really looking forward to this performance, Sebastian. Sebastian: Your Majesty. This will be the finest concert I have ever conducted. Your daughters, they will be spectacular! Triton: Yes, and especially my little Ariel. Sebastian: Yes, ...

The Little Mermaid

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once yo...

Eat, Pray, Love

To build a church when a school house is needed is to perpetrate a theft upon education. To build a church when a hospital is needed is to take from the parched lips of the sick the cup of relief and from the suffering the merciful hand of help. When...

An Atheist Manifesto

Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shaped, molded, created by focused effort and intent. And yet, true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless. Best friends are formed by t...

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Destiny, I feel is also a relationship-a play between grace and willful self-effort. Half of it you have no control over, half of it is absolutely in your hands and your actions will show measurable consequences. Man is neither entirely a puppet of t...

Elizabeth Gilbert

In this way Fate outplayed the efforts of mortals-simply to amuse itself, one might think.

Det syvende barn

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Death in a Tenured Position

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

I might go easy on people who make mistakes, but never on people who make no effort.

Flashes of Thought

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

Pat Riley

I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM's 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.

Anne Sweeney

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Benjamin Tucker

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

E. O. Wilson

The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the market...

Geoffrey Canada

We can all agree that government can't solve the obesity crisis alone. It's an ongoing issue that will require a collaborative effort across private and public sectors if we want to see some long-term success.

Marcus Samuelsson

FIFA's goal of making the world a better place through football cannot be achieved through our efforts alone - equally important is the power which every fan of the beautiful game has at their disposal.

Sepp Blatter

I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

Invisible Monsters

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

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods