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Quotes about Effort

The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
— Samuel Johnson
If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself and, equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor: you must be living in your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
— Samuel Johnson
What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
— Cicero
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
— Anonymous
Try thyself first, and after call in God. For to the worker God himself lends aid.
— Euripides
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
The only failure is not to try.
— George Clooney
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
— Joyce Meyer