Quotes About Endeavor

Emotion can be more exhausting than physical endeavor.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

I should like to see you try.

A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do

There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

For the sincere wish to be good is half the battle.

for though we do want to be good, it's hard work, and we forget, and don't do our best.

And I still think," said Olivia, "that it's better to try and fail, doing what you want to do, than not to try." She could not explain it more clearly that that but she knew it was the trying that was important; even if it fails, it goes to swell the sum total of trying, as a martyr's faith, even if he is killed for it, swells the faith of everyone.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

For it is not what happens to me that makes me great, but it is what I do.

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Success doesn't just find you. You have to go out and get it.

Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

Success is never so interesting as struggle