Quotes About Endeavor

Alongside the wisdom of true conservatism is the danger that the status quo might become corrupt and its corruption self-servingly exploited. Alongside the brilliance of creative endeavor is the false heroism of the resentful ideologue, who wears the clothes of the original rebel while undeservedly claiming the upper moral hand and rejecting all genuine responsibility.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

quien quiere agradar, se esmera.

Tis not in mortals to command success; but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

If you are poor that is not a detriment but an advantage. Poverty is an incentive to endeavor, not a drawback. Better to be born with a good, working brain in your head than with a gold spoon in your mouth. If the world had been depending on the so-called pets of fortune it would have deteriorated long ago.

Gokouun o inorimasu," Shoto said. "Do your best.

We'll do our best." "I know you will.

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try…

The enormity of our endeavor escaped us in those moments, all we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring kilometers in the flight northward.

Bisogna dunque tendere a ciò che si vuole, facendo quel che si può.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly,but we can't bring it to achievement.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.

My whole career, I've been climbing or chasing or hunting something.

Nothing is ever ideal. You have to work all the same.

The idle always have a mind to do something.