Quotes About Endeavor

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Me, I only try. I'm not one like Moses, or Solon—or, or—Lycurgus.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

The irony of this endeavor is palpable, for English itself is a hopeless hodgepodge of other tongues, with more exceptions than rules, more chaos than order, and enough new words created each day to keep the Oxford English Dictionary folks very, very busy.

How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or argued over with a friend in a frosty garden, becomes clouded and murk-stained when dragged out into the field of actual endeavor.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Each golden sunrise ushers in new opportunities for those who retain faith in themselves, and keep their chins up.... Meet the sunrise with confidence. Fill every golden minute with right thinking and worthwhile endeavor. Do this and there will be joy for you in each golden sunset.

I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

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

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away.

So often we search out the impossible, and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

Faith that the thing can be done is essential to any great achievement.

What isn't tried won't work.

He that would have fruit must climb the tree.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

You will never do anything in this world without courage.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there-or failing to get there.