Quotes About Endeavor

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle!

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."

When success finds you, it's because you were looking for it.

The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played in it for six months. I came back and I tried to make it into a movie, without success.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.

Genuine effort is success.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?