Quotes About Endeavor

I have done my best," he says. "Let it be remembered I tried.

Odysseus looks at the young man's implacable face. "I have done my best," he says. "Let it be remembered I tried." I remember.

You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.

The gods never ask for the promise of success, only that we try.

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

doesn't always work, but when a venture succeeds, there is nothing else quite like it for the mind and spirit.

If prayer do not constantly endeavour the ruin of sin, sin will ruin prayer, and utterly alienate the soul from it.

Nor can we be any of us delivered from this snare, at this season, without a watchful endeavour to keep and preserve our minds in the constant contemplation of things spiritual and heavenly, proceeding from the prevalent adherence of our affections unto them, as will appear in the ensuing discourse.

We strive for the best we can attain within the scope the world allows.

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The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

This must be a good book," he wrote in Working Days on June 10, 1938. "It simply must. I haven't any choice. It must be far and away the best thing I have ever attempted—slow but sure, piling detail on detail until a picture and an experience emerge. Until the whole throbbing thing emerges.

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

The goal in life is just the same as in basketball: make the effort to do the best you are capable of doing

Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That's what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.

You never stop trying.

Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable.

Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do.

The difference between a dream and a fantasy is action.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.