Quotes About Endeavor

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

What is the worth of anything we do? The worth is in the act. Your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life

We only live once, since we are given the gift of life it should be our persistent endeavor to immortalize ourselves no matter what field of endeavor we choose.

You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

the best we know how.

It is but one side of a Christian to endeavor to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavor to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not really trying

My big fish must be somewhere.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

The one who is doing the work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one poverty is hard on. Heminway talking about his wife Hadley

Everyone needs to do what they can do, by how truly they can do.

Only the impossible is ever worth doing at all.

The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through. We'll

what self-actualization means: the need to achieve one's utter personal best in a chosen field of endeavor. Once someone's source of motivation is self-actualization, his drive to perform has no limit. Thus, its most important characteristic is that unlike other sources of motivation, which extinguish themselves after the needs are fulfilled, self-actualization continues to motivate people to ever higher levels of performance.

Perfection cannot be achieved by men," he told me. "Our highest calling is the pursuit of perfection. My haiku will be finished when I die, but it will never be perfect.

It doesn't matter what you do, just try to be the best at it

Knowledge is not enough. You must take action!

We won't manage to do much more than we're capable of,' he said more quietly and more warmly. 'But we shall all do our best to make sure it won't be much less.

Success is in the trying, not the triumph.

The first thing that sometimes keeps next generation leaders from playing to their strengths is that the idea of being a balanced or well-rounded leader looks good on paper and sounds compelling coming from behind a lectern, but in reality, it is an unworthy endeavor. Read the biographies of the achievers in any arena of life. You will find over and over that these were not "well-rounded" leaders. They were men and women of focus.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

She was not aware of loneliness so much as of endeavour: her future career as a writer, of which there was as yet no sign, would, she thought, in time validate her entire existence. Until then she would adopt—had already adopted—a regime which would steel her against rejection and disappointment.