Quotes About Endeavor

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

We take no pleasure in existence except when we are striving after something.

was willing to make his best effort.

I had seen the procedure done. Now it was my turn to try.

I don't believe in people just hoping. We work for what we want. I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor, so we work to try and bring about the situation that is necessary for the country, and we are confident that we will get to the negotiation table at one time or another.

Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps the more precious thing is the courage acquired through endeavor, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions, courage that could be described as 'grace under pressure'- grace which is renewed repeatedly in the face of harsh, unremitting pressure.

It doesn't matter. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

A lumbering soul but trying to fly...

Because it's there. -George Mallory, one of the first climbers to attempt Everest, when asked why he wanted to climb it. (He disappeared into a cloud near the summit in 1924, where his body was found in 1999.)

There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. (...) However bad life may seem (...) While there's life, there is hope.

There should be no boundary to human endeavor.

It's only when you put action into practice will you ever really unlock the real possibilities that surround you.

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return.

I ran the Boston Marathon out of love. I believe that love is the basis of all meaningful human endeavor. Yet it was a love that was incomplete until it was shared with others.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing."4

Taking practice apart for analysis kills something that is a dynamic, variable, and highly complex personal endeavor.

Gandhi was not a Christian, but he lived in a community that endeavored to live by the teachings set forth in the Sermon on the Mount. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer