Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you. – Joyce Meyer
It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life. – Jason Bateman
I am very busy, life is very busy, and I was, I think, a somewhat lazy friend. I love them, I know they love me, but I didn’t make much of an effort. – Jane Green
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread. – James A. Baldwin
We’re not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it’s not about appearances. It’s about effectiveness. – Katherine Harris
When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don’t mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well. – LaMarr Woodley
The fans never send me crazy things. They send me things that they put so much time and effort into making, and they are so amazing. – Mariah Carey
Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country. – Marco Rubio
I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others. – Jessie Pavelka
We all know the place you’re in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn’t we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible? – Jesse Schell
Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the ‘Today Show,’ ‘Meet the Press,’ etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it. – Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
It is easy to make stuff up – and easy to dig up information and repeat it or report it to others. But to find a real life story with real people in real life situations is quite difficult and time-consuming. Yet, the rewards are worth the effort. – Lee Gutkind
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I don’t make an effort to be sloppy. I just don’t consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I’d dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots. – Juliette Lewis
I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support. – Kerry Healey
Our soldiers have done a valiant effort in fighting terrorism and bringing a semblance of law and order to the chaos in the region and it would be shortsighted to lay out a specific timetable to bring U.S. troops home prematurely before their mission is accomplished. – James T. Walsh
This is a global effort we’re going to have to lead to overcome this jihadist effort. It’s more than Osama bin Laden. But he is going to pay, and he will die. – Mitt Romney
I’m not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I’ll try to express instead is, ‘What we’re going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women’s bodies. So I want them framed as though they’re bursting out of the panel borders.’ – Kelly Sue DeConnick
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. – James M. Cain
It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down. – Jack Johnson
I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. – Joe Pantoliano
It takes the same effort to think small than to think big. But to think big frees you from the insignificant details. – Jorge Paulo Lemann
Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing. – Karen Salmansohn
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it. – John Burns
The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery. – Lajos Kossuth
It therefore become essential for the future of Judaism itself that its advancement should be correlated with a similar effort to advance the cause of religion generally. – Louis Finkelstein
The truth is, the sport of skiing takes so much effort, setting up and traveling with equipment, that you can only train for a certain number of days in the summer. Most of my peers ski between 40 to 60 days. I ski about 55 days. – Julia Mancuso
