Quotes About Endeavor

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

It were a vain endeavor,Though I should gaze foreverOn that green light that lingers in the west:I may not hope from outward forms to winThe passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

that good yet, but she did

I ride hard to fetch the roo.

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on.

. . . we will never be prompted by the Holy Ghost to do something we cannot do. It may require extraordinary effort and much time, patience, prayer, and obedience, but we can do it.

We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it.

You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

One does not fail at a task. One merely does not succeed. And since one is always striving for success, so long as one continues striving, one can never truly fail.

When my enemies seek my life, how can I do other than use my endeavor to destroy them in my own defense?" The

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

It cannot be said that she was a bad woman, though she had in her time done an indescribable amount of evil. She had endeavoured to do good, failing partly by ignorance and partly from the effects of an unbridled, ambitious temper.

Hay quienes no pasan de ser sólo acciones, otros además de la acción, dejan un producto.

The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

W]here there are things to be done the end is not to survey and recognize the various things, but rather to do them...

Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

Arthur Conan Doyle

They had something to do. They could escape from themselves.