Effort Quotes to Inspire You to Achieve Your Goals - page 110

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.
The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.
 Paul Auster
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
 Analeigh Tipton
Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
 Mas Oyama
Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.
 Leon Trotsky
Information from destructive activities going back a hundred years right up until today is being incorporated into the system. And as that happens the underlying framework of industrialism is collapsing and causing disintegration.
 Paul Hawken
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.
 Thucydides
Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments.
I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.
 Robert Plant
A problem is only a problem when viewed as a problem. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
Failure has gone to his head.
Failure has gone to his head.
 Wilson Mizner
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.
 Tom Ford
I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.
 Shawn Tompkins
The King struggles to work with other countries. It's a warrior's concern, and as current events [demonstrate], the challenges in working with international partners are very serious and far from comedic.
 Ken Watanabe
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
 Al Franken
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
 Francis Hutcheson
The old and honorable American notion, that a person who works hard should be able to live in freedom and security, with dignity - seems to have taken on a secondary status.
You cannot increase the quality or quantity of your achievement or performance except to the degree in which you increase your ability to use your time effectively.
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride
 Karen Horney
We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.