Quotes About Endeavor

living to make, and he wanted to make it here in these parts, where

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

George leaned to the right so that he could see her from behind his brother. "Shall I strangle him or will you?" She rewarded him with a devious smile. "Oh, it must be a joint endeavor, don't you think?" "So that you may share the blame?" Andrew quipped. "So that we may share the joy," Billie corrected. "You wound me." "Happily, I assure you.

Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.

Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

Progress is hard to measure in any creative endeavor, I think. It's often a matter of instinct, of feeling your way through what works and what doesn't.

I work all the time; whatever I do, I do it, and I don't necessarily look at it as work. You could say the Auschwitz project was work, or the Lowy Institute is work, or Westfield is work, or the football is work. It is life.

we are feeble in love and imperfect in virtue,

I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played.

No esperes en el sofá a que la inspiración te llegue, tienes que ir tú en busca de la inspiración

Esforzarte y hacerlo lo mejor posible, en cambio, depende de ti.

A trying time is no time to quit tryin'.

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

share this experience with you because to believe that you will prevail, in any endeavor, means everything.

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fiction from the perspective of each writer. If I'm teaching a story by Hemingway, my endeavor is to present the story that Hemingway wrote in its fullest realization.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

I would love to do something dramatic. I don't know if anybody will ever give me the chance, but I would love to try it. I'm trained in acting and spent many years working on it, so it's just a matter of opportunity.

With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

All Boston songs are fairly difficult to translate to the stage. None of them are especially easy to play or sing. A lot of them, of course, have very involved arrangements with lots of different sounds and sections that are difficult to play and sing. The prospect of doing any Boston song live is always an endeavor in itself.

Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?