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Quotes About Endeavor

I fight to embrace the entire circle of human activity to the full extent of my ability.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Work is at the heart of human dignity.
~ Rachel Campos-Duffy
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.
~ Graham Greene
It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.
~ Gregory David Roberts
It isn't whether you do it well or ill, it's that you do it all.
~ Gregory Maguire
I want to find the intersection between digital media and traditional media and be pioneering the endeavor to merge the two worlds.
~ Logan Paul
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
~ Jack Nicholson
I think the worst thing you could do is not shoot the shot. When you shoot you got two options: It can go in or you can miss, and even in the miss you might learn.
~ Fabolous
I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
~ Ovid
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don't sit around.
~ Jane McGonigal
Things which do not require effort of some sort are seldom worth having.
~ Ivor Novello
Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.
~ Derek Walcott
Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.
~ Seamus Heaney
I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.
~ Mario Cuomo
Nobody can be whatever they want to be. No kid can do whatever they want to do. It's a total lie. But they have the right to try and do whatever they want to do. That's their right, to aim to do whatever they want to do.
~ James McAvoy
field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.
~ Sean Patrick
There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
~ Sean Patrick
Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.
~ Shane L. Koyczan
So I did. I strained. I reached. I tried so hard, I farted! Mrs. V cracked up.
~ Sharon M. Draper
Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.
~ George Ade
Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.
~ Howard Gordon
What if you can't, Austin? You can't help everyone.""At least I'll know I tried.
~ Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.
~ Dorothy Baker