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Quotes about Effort

greater than its cost. Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
— Max Lucado
You long for the fruit of the Spirit. But how do you bear this fruit? Try harder? No, hang tighter. Our assignment is not fruitfulness but faithfulness.
— Max Lucado
Nothing will work unless you do.
— Maya Angelou
Ain't nothin' to it, but to do it.
— Maya Angelou
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
— Maya Angelou
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home.
— Maya Angelou
I want you to learn that you cannot have anything without working for it. The only way you can be taken advantage of is if you think you can get something for nothing.
— Maya Angelou
Preparation is rarely easy and never beautiful.
— Maya Angelou
On my way out of the house one morning she said, "Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait." Another time she reminded me that "God helps those who help themselves.
— Maya Angelou
That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Can't do is like Don't Care.' Neither of them have a home. Translated, that meant there was nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.
— Maya Angelou
A smile struggled free and limped across his lips.
— Maya Angelou
Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait
— Maya Angelou