Quotes About Endeavor

Achievement: The death of an endeavor, and the birth of disgust.

There is no business in the world so troublesome as the pursuit of fame: life is over before you have hardly begun your work.

How to succeed: try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.

There is nothing more dangerous to the formation of a prose style than the endeavour to make it poetic.

Honestly, what the hell is destiny going to want from me now?" "The same as any endeavor. Blood, sweat, and tears." "That's it," Tohr said dryly. "And here I was thinking it could just be an arm or a leg.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

Don't loaf around and wait for inspiration. Light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it, you will get something that looks remarkably like it.

That's the type of person I am - I always want to do better.

I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here.

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.

Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavour to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men's ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish.

By all means make a start — even if it's for the wrong reason.

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try.

No one or anything on this earth is perfect; Can only try to be perfect

As WArden Lawes once said of convicts, no man can be called a failure until he has tried something he really likes, and fails at it.

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.