Quotes About Endeavor

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.

I think every work is hard in different ways.

I wanted to try directing.

Directing 'When You Find Me' was one of the most creatively rewarding endeavors of my career.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.

A struggle, to the person experiencing it, is a struggle.

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.

I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.

I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Chris Ferguson brought up a really interesting point that I agree with, and he said science is a human endeavor. The more someone tells me that they're absolutely objective, the less I believe they are. So people need to fact-check things. They need to understand that science is easily damaged by politics and personal opinion.

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

undertaking, they said, was too

I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed

To use the human metaphor, it would be like trying to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. It can't be done.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp.

If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly.

We look for some reward of our endeavours and are disappointed; not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well.

There'll come a moment when you think you can make it, and you'll try.

It is not so easy as running and not running.