Quotes About Endeavor

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

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.

Man can learn everything if he will but try.

All heroic endeavour, and all that is known as art, assumes that there is such a background, just as all practical endeavour, when the world is to our taste, assumes that the world is all.

Ideas are worthless unless we act on them.

Trying is not enough

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.

First just try to hit the moon … walking on its surface is for another day.

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.

Crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

For all the wonders of ancient Athens, or rather because of them, I faced a fundamental question. How was it that this tiny community of 200,000 souls or so (in other words, no more populous than, say, York in England or Little Rock in Arkansas) managed to give birth to towering geniuses across the range of human endeavor and to create one of the greatest civilizations in history? Indeed, it laid the foundations of our own contemporary intellectual universe.

I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.

I am a person who keeps doing something or the other, pursuing one interest after another.

One of the cool things about amateur athletics is that, I think, the pursuit is sort of the pursuit of excellence for nothing more than trying to be excellent.

I saw an early cut of 'The Disaster Artist,' and I thought it was inspiring in a lot of ways, and it made me realize it had been so long since I had tried to make a film or to try to - you know, the book was obviously my first kind of big creative pursuit I had control over.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

I think religion is as flawed an enterprise as any other human endeavor, but the interests and ambitions of religion are the right interests and ambitions.