It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
From the things I’ve read, I think I’ve been portrayed in kind of a way that makes me look like I don’t put an effort into winning. I think that’s completely the wrong portrayal of the person I am. – Matt Harvey
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization. – Charles Bass
Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrificing a lot. – Gabby Douglas
Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even. – Elizabeth Reaser
I wear no makeup in real life. I’m very simple. That may be why I go over the top for the red carpet. But otherwise, I’m very plain. I should make more of an effort, actually. – Eva Green
I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic. – Nigel Farage
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. – Plato
The largest single contributor to Iraq’s security is that effort of Iraqi people who continue to step forward to join the various Iraqi security forces. – Craig L. Thomas
I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years. – Major Owens
I just think overall a lot of it has to do with conditioning and players putting in the time and the effort in the off-season to keep themselves in condition for 12 months a year. – Mark Messier
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through the prisms of history and literature, no small part of that effort has drawn us to the subject of war. We might even say that the humanities began with war and from war, and have remained entwined with it ever since. – Drew Gilpin Faust
There’s almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you’re at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes. – Esther Dyson
This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit. – Gavin MacLeod
We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad. – Dave Reichert
Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. – Noam Chomsky
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
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don’t work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won’t work. – Eddie Murphy
But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that’s what I put all my effort into. – Donald Glover
There are people to whom heroism under fire comes naturally and seemingly without effort, but Patton was not one of them. – Michael Korda
When things could’ve gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we’d be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you’re kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law. – Daniel Cudmore
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort. – Paramahansa Yogananda
Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that’s what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort. – Emma Thompson
The voice doesn’t take a lot of effort now, but in the beginning it was hard to try to find a voice. The one I settled on was just easier to do for a half-hour. – Dan Castellaneta
