Best Effort Quotes - Page 5

• With the empowerment of an advanced Teacher, and your own best efforts, you will be able to explore the mysteries of knowledge that lead to completion and perfection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Perfection, Empowerment

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• Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every action we take, in every place we go, with every Latter-day Saint young person we meet, we need to have an increased awareness of the need for strengthening, nurturing, and being an influence for good in their lives

  Ronald A. Rasband

  Journey, Support, Rising

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• Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

  Tom Peters

  Creating, Essentials, Rewards

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, White

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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• Success is a process for all of us, and as long as you are making consistent progress towards your goals - sincerely giving your best effort more often than not - then you are already successful and deserve to feel proud of yourself.

  Hal Elrod

  Success, Long, Giving

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Oct 20, 2009

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• Occupy yourself with what's in your life now. Address those situations and subjects as fully as possible with your best efforts. That is what produces happiness and clarity and knowledge and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Knowledge And Power

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• Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments for pictures, they are living things that deserve your best effort if you are going to be a landlord to them. There is no magic spell that will protect those bluebirds--they have to depend on you or they are doomed.

  Kathy Griffin

  House, Magic, Want

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• When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

  George Tenet

  Men, Agency, Years

  Speech of CIA Director George Tenet, www.americanprogress.org. February 5, 2004.

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• People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, People

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• In industry, we are now concentrating our best effort in trying to make plants work at a maximum capacity, trying to replace the equipment which is in bad conditions due to lack of spare parts from the U.S.., that we cannot get from the U.S.; to extend our industry later on the basis of our primary resources. And to lessen our dependence on external markets and dedicate our efforts in 1965 to the aspect of security and hygiene of work, to make our plants better for the worker: that the worker may feel really a man there.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Hygiene, Trying

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

  Dan Simmons

  Trust, Art, Believe

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• I'm going to bring my best efforts and do my very best every day to support our new president's [Donald Trump] agenda and to hopefully play some small role in making America great again.

  Mike Pence

  Play, America, Support

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I like to remember what Michelle Obama said in her amazing speech at our Democratic National Convention: When they go low, we go high. And Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Speech, Remember, Lows

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• If you can look at your failure and answer yes to the questions, "Did I give it my absolute best effort?" and "Have I learned something valuable?" then you have failed in the right way. By these standards, I've failed many times in my career. But every failure has made me stronger and wiser. Inevitably, success has always followed.

  Ian Anthony Dale

  Careers, Giving, Stronger

  "Actor Ian Anthony Dale: on being stereotyped, his deep-fried childhood, and letting failure make you stronger". Interview with Robert Piper, fyeahiananthonydale.tumblr.com. 2016.

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• I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.

  Gretchen Bleiler

  Sports, Desire, Care

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• I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

  Len Wein

  Lenses, Judgment, I Realized

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN PART ONE". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• 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.

  Kurt Busch

  Giving Up, Trying, Matter

  "2nd, 3rd Finishers Pocono II Press Conference". Press Conference, www.motorsport.com. August 8, 2011.

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• Barack Obama went high, despite Donald Trump's best efforts to bring him down.

  Hillary Clinton

  Trump, Barack, Despite

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Some times your best effort just isn't good enough.

  LeBron James

  Effort, Good Enough, Enough

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• As the excited passions of hostile people are of themselves a powerful enemy, both the general and his government should use their best efforts to allay them.

  Antoine-Henri Jomini

  Powerful, Military, Passion

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• Good men sometimes make mistakes. A man of integrity will honestly face and correct his mistakes, and that is an example we can respect. Sometimes men try but fail. Not all worthy objectives are realized despite one’s honest and best efforts. True manhood is not always measured by the fruits of one’s labors but by the labors themselves–by one’s striving.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Mistake, Integrity, Men

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• Science is so powerful that it drags us kicking and screaming towards the truth despite our best efforts to avoid it.

  Peter Watts

  Powerful, Kicking, Climate Change

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• I think this is the way love feels to people like you and me. Threatening and dangerous. We have to be in control, and love takes that away. People like us… We can't tolerate vulnerability. But despite our best efforts, sooner or later love seems to catch up with us. And then…And then we fall apart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Fall, Thinking, People

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• I realize I had to learn ... to stop chasing the perishable prizes of this earth ... and give my best effort unto God and trust Him with the results.

  Jeremy Lin

  Giving, Earth, Realizing

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• My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

  Bill Buxton

  Order, Design, Tools

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

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