The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Most champions are built by punch the clock workouts rather than extraordinary efforts.
I will not support efforts that kill jobs in my district and lack provisions for responsibly transitioning us toward a clean-energy economy.
The 1990 'Goodwill Games' can be another indication that the television world is not divided between commercial and cable. If the viewer thinks highly of our efforts. . . they will have a higher opinion of cable television and TBS.
Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.
We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.
All my efforts go into creating an art that can be understood by everyone.
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.
Our earliest efforts will be heard with joy by our Heavenly Father, however they are phrased.
It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.
Submitting self to God is the only real freedom-because the deepest slavery is self-dependence, self-reliance. When you live your life believing that everything (family, finances, relationships, career) depends primarily on you, you're enslaved to your strengths and weaknesses. You're trying to be your own savior. Freedom comes when we start trusting in God's abilities and wisdom instead of our own. Real life begins when we transfer our trust from our own efforts to the efforts of Christ.
Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time.
The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.
As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.