Quotes About Endeavor

Lewis's first novel appeared in November 1912 under the pseudonym of Tom Graham, because Lewis regarded it as a pot boiler, which was written quickly to pay the bills rather than for any artistic endeavour. It had an initial print run of 1,000 copies and sold less than 800 of those. Lewis later revealed that it was written "on a wharf in Provincetown, Mass. on a vacation from my bosses".

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

I'm not known as a singer, but in life I like to do things that are a bit beyond my reach to keep myself from slipping.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when all your arrows are spent.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Judge a man by what he tried, not by what he accomplished.

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life's endeavour.

Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

You can't be criticized for what you don't try. You can't lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.

Her dismissive skill was subtle and brutal, sometimes no more than a thin smile, a watery upward look or an amused intake of breath, a scanning cauterizing instrument which rendered any endeavor puny or extravagantly indulgent . Her son was her prize victim.

The emphasis of interpretation was rooted in their understanding that their endeavour would take a long time and that outside intervention too often comes wrapped in agendas and time frames that offer help but which demand outcomes related to foreign understandings of purpose and results.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying — and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Although I wanted my players to work to win, I tried to convince them they had always won when they had done their best.

A man obtains only what he strives for. He

There is no state of being called "trying".

She tried to, anyway.

Destiny is ever critical to all human lives and future. I mean, destiny has a decisive importance in the success or failure of every human undertaking or endeavour including yours. And so, quest for your God-given destiny and strive to fulfill it at all cost. -Emeasoba George

Greatness is never a will-o'-the-wisp. That is to say, it is not a difficult thing to achieve. For, the seed of greatness is already in you. But, you've got to spring it up, by taking a leap of faith and calculated risks. -Emeasoba George

Life is a one time experience. Thus, endeavour to give it all you've got now that you are still alive. ~Emeasoba George