Quotes About Endeavor

Those that truly love God will make it their constant care and endeavour to keep his commandments, particularly those that relate to his worship. Those that love God, and keep those

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

teaching us to press towards perfection and endeavour that our last works may be our best works.

They are all doing their best; even when they are not, they wish they were, and that is worth something too.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there -- or failing to get there.

Science…means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an aim which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but the intellect can never fully grasp.

Throughout his work, Dr. Maltz used two terms that some people find more beneficial than the word "goal." The word "goal" causes a negative reaction or feeling of tension in some people. But if they use the word "project" or "cause," they understand what they need to do.

We recognize the contributions made by science, which improves our lives, and by the arts, which fill our lives. We have numbered among our students physicists and pianists, surgeons and dramatists. We set no limits to human endeavor.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.

God helps to those who try to do their best without asking God's help!

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!

I had spent my life in the river bottoms and Boulder meant a wonderful climax," Crowe recalled in 1943. "I was wild to build this dam." So, too, were the founders of Six Companies, Inc., the unwieldy contracting consortium assembled in 1931 to make a bid on the dam project.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."2

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. The difference is this: A market economy is a tool—a valuable and effective tool—for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour.

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Virtue craves a steep and thorny path.

Note that he said, "…but I am going to try to work on my marriage." My mother, a therapist, used to say, "There are those who try and those who do." I agree wholeheartedly. "Trying" connotes tentativeness, when what

K2 had been climbed, not conquered.

Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure

no worthwhile effort in one's life is either a success or a failure.

Altius, citius, fortius—is