Quotes About Endeavor

I'm just going to have to keep working on what I have to and keep chasing my goals.

One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

What else is there in life but to accomplish things and to do things? Sure I like to be on a beach on occasion, I like to ski on occasion, but as long as I have the ability to make a contribution, I am going to keep going.

You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.

Zu wie vielen Horizonten ich auch aufgebrochen bin, die Belohnung lag jeweils im Streben selbst.

I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.

love strips the mask from each of us, and we must endeavor for those we love to put the mask on so that it can be taken off again. For if there is no mask to start with, there is no pleasure in removing it, is there?

You can only do what you can no matter how you try.

There comes a time in every endeavor when one must take fate by the lapels and explain the need for urgency.

Men must sweat to attain virtue.

What man has done, man can aspire to do.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena..who errs, who comes short again and again; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who spends himself in a worthy cause.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good.

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

The great man is always the man of mighty effort.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.