Quotes About Endeavor

Something comes out of every voyage,' said the other man sharply. 'Out of every bloody fruitless endeavour. All the striving after the unknowable. The unattainable, the search for Athor, the creative force, rolled into a circle. You with your quest; I with my care-ridden Emperor; Sir Thomas, sitting before the fire, his bowels burning before him. We add something. If we didn't add something, there would be no object in it.

To try and to fail, is not laziness

It will prove, I fear, too Herculean a task for us.

Action is the crux to which all change is possible making any goal achievable

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

It is always better to try and fail than not to try.

Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

We've always dreamt of doing TV and movies and we shot two pilots for TV networks, but neither one went to series.

If I'm on the pitch, I want to just try to give my best performance every game.

I always want to do better; I always want to find a new challenge.

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

I'm always wanting to do the impossible.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are more than half prepared to betray the cause, in the vindication of which they have engaged their services.

Sometimes everyone does their best and things still end up wrong.

In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.

The situation demands effort but thwarts trying.

The desire to minimize human uniqueness has prompted exaggerated claims about animal tool use, about their range and mode of communication and their sense of each other, about their putative beliefs and other modes of thought. However, the monuments of collective endeavour seen in the animal kingdom – for example the heaps created by termites – are the result not of conscious deliberation but of dovetailing automaticities.

Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.

If you have dreams, chase them.

I'm trying to chase all the records. I'm trying to chase all of them, whichever one are attainable.