The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.
Barack Obama

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Thomas A. Edison

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.
James A. Baldwin

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya

Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
Anais Nin

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Trees are Earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Chuck Palahniuk

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 made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher

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

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
Colin Powell

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir Lenin

Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
Herodotus