Quotes About Endeavor

Why should we try, why not just take the world as it is? I told her how he had said that we had to try because the alternative wasn't blankness – it only meant that if we didn't try ourselves, we would never be free of other people's inventions.

Art begins with resistance—at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before—to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence.

What I hope to convey with From the Earth to the Moon is what Andy's captured so well in this book—just how magnificent an undertaking Apollo really was. That going to the moon was not just a technological endeavor, but an artistic one, like Michelangelo's frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.

At least I tried.

You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this.… Ready?" "Ready." " 'At least I tried.

It was amazing, really, the effort that went into the absence of things.

You get older and you learn there is one sentence, just four words long, and if you can say it to yourself it offers more comfort than almost any other. It goes like this.… Ready?" "Ready." " Ã¢â'¬ËœAt least I tried.' Ã¢â'¬Â Lena

Trying" is failing with honor.

That I want nothing," said the Prince, "or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint; if I had any known want, I should have a certain wish; that wish would excite endeavour, and I should not then repine to see the sun move so slowly towards the western mountains, or to lament when the day breaks, and sleep will no longer hide me from myself.

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It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom, or that which is established because it is right from that which is right only because it is established

That all any of us has to give is our best. if we do that. we succeed, no matter what the outcome.

You know, it's all right to be wrong, but it's not all right not to try.

No creo en el fracaso porque al decir que hemos fracasado, ya estamos admitiendo que lo hemos intentado. Y todo el que lo intenta no fracasa. Los que fracasan, en mi opinión, son los que ni siquiera lo intentan. Los que se quedan sentados en el sofá y se quejan y gimotean y esperan que el mundo cambie para ellos.

I would never make a lion, I knew that; but I might pick up a small gain here and there in the attempt.

The deed is everything, the glory nothing.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

la tierra, no te será prohibido intentarlo. Siempre que tenga deseos y aspiraciones, el hombre puede equivocarse.

La acción es todo, la gloria nada es.

For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.

Farming in America soon became less a family enterprise than a business endeavor, and by the year 2000, 80 percent of America's beef was produced by just four main companies. The plains and the range had given way to concrete and steel.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.