Quotes About Endeavor

You can accomplish whatever you want to. You just got to throw your hat in the ring. You've got to get out there and do it.

'John Henry Days' was already half in the can before my first book came out, so I'd already started something that was big and sprawling - I just had to finish it.

and I though, Well, sir, if we are going to make a sadness party of it, I have some sadness about which I think someone as powerful as you might like to know. (..) , and all the things that they had endured, thinking, Sir, if you are as powerful as I feel that you are, and as inclined toward us as you seem to be, endeavor to do something for us, so that we might do something for ourselves.

William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. "The real question posed to us is the effort we are willing to make

Making a television show is a difficult, collaborative, creative endeavor, and it really requires everybody to band together and all work together every day.

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title.

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

I'm doing this to survive. I'm doing this for my livelihood. I'm fighting with my heart and my soul and my passion. I'm going to give it everything I've got.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

it's not the thought that counts. In this world, it's the action that counts.

Sometimes I fall, but landing every jump isn't the point. It's the attempt. It's the effort.

Don't think I'm not trying. I'm trying, every day.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Anybody can do anything with enough time and money.

It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

O, sons of classic Italy, is the spirit of enterprise, of self-reliance, of noble endeavor, utterly dead within ye? Curse your indolent worthlessness, why don't you rob your church?

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a God can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of the God in the time of foundering for in the face of the God who is absent, we founder. Only a God can save us.

If I may answer briefly, and perhaps clumsily, but after long reflection: philosophy will be unable to effect any immediate change in the current state of the world. This is true not only of philosophy but of all purely human reflection and endeavor. Only a god can save us.