Quotes about Effort

Quotes about EFFORT
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”     --Theodore Roosevelt 

“Continuous effort– not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.    --Winston Churchill  

“All things are difficult before they are easy.”   --Thomas Fuller

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.  Willing is not enough; we must do.”     --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   

“Hope is wishing for a thing to come true.  Faith is believing it will come true.  Work is making it come true.”
--Dr. Norman Vincent Peale

“A man of words, and not of deeds, is like a garden full of weeds.”
--English Proverb

“Thinking well is wise; planning well wiser; doing well wisest and best of all.”  --Persian Proverb

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.”   --Ralph Waldo Emerson  

“Just try to bethe best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be.  That’s in your power.”   --John Wooden

“If a task is once begun, never leave it till it’s done.  Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.”    --Author Unknown

“If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.”   --Mark Twain

“No bees, No honey, No work, No money.”   Author Unknown