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Quotes About Endeavor

Not too many men, in his experience, had achieved a great thing, even one. Very few ever achieved more than one, he knew.
~ Larry McMurtry
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life.
~ Laurence Sterne
The only people don't suffer those are the ones who never do anything
~ Laurie Graham
One sad thing about this world is that the acts that take the most out of you are usually the ones that people will never know about. (from 'Celestial Navigation')
~ Anne Tyler
A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.
~ Ralph Barton Perry
It is human nature to strive.
~ Temple Grandin
Cheer up, make every endeavor worthwhile and never get tempted to take away the privilege to smile because life deserves joy and laughter.
~ Cesar Gealogo
We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
~ Evelyn Boyd Granville
if we never try, we shall never succeed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
October} 13th [1862] (To McClellan) ...if we never try, we shall never succeed.
~ Abraham Lincoln
We need the work. We'll do a
~ Adriana Trigiani
Human endeavour is not competent to obtain success and wealth. Bread is not the possession of the wise nor wealth the possession of the astute (Kohelet 9:11). No one can be sure that his efforts will succeed as the Torah says many times over, it is God who decides who will be rich and who will be poor (Dvarim 28:12).
~ Aharon Feldman
We must, between periods of digging in the dark, endeavour always to transform our tears into knowledge.
~ Alain de Botton
Critical to both our imaginative impoverishment and our practical enrichment is the field of endeavour known as logistics, a name rooted in the Ancient Greek military figure of the logistikos or quartermaster, who was once responsible for supplying an army with food and weaponry.
~ Alain de Botton
Efortul-o cale spre autenticitate ?i glorie.
~ Alain de Botton
To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.
~ Dillon Burroughs
I prefer trying over talking.
~ Dillon Burroughs
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
~ Dolly Parton
You never do a whole lot unless your brave enough to try.'' Dolly Parton
~ Dolly Parton
You run and you run to catch up to the sun but it's sinking, racing around to come up behind you again.
~ Roger Waters
Forget about the reasons why you can't in life and start to try
~ Hilary Duff
Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .
~ Aristotle