Quotes About Endeavor

You get to the top of one mountain and then you see another.

I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.

Can you give someone a bad name for wanting to be ambitious? For wanting to move onto bigger things? That person is ambitious, that person wants to do stuff, that person wants to move on with his life.

Winning is never enough, and I've got to try and do it as much as I can before my time is over.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Nascar will certainly not be one of my challenges in the future.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Speaking truth to power is a noble endeavor but of limited utility if one's head is in a basket.

The reward may be uncertain, but our doom is inevitable unless we try.

The doing is the thing.

Redstone Challenge Try

When things went wrong they had the consolations of religion. This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.

after philosophy, action is required;

In his view, we were already a success, because we were doing something hard and it was something that mattered to us. You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

You don't measure things like that with words like success or failure, he said. Satisfaction comes from trying hard things and then going on to the next hard thing, regardless of the outcome. What mattered was whether or not you were moving in a direction you thought was right.

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Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and 'tis for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail of success.

That split second an invisible battery opened up with a salvo. Patton had to raise his voice to a still higher pitch, as he exclaimed, "Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, how I love it!

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

The point is the effort

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Let some holy ambition invade our souls, so that, dissatisfied with mediocrity, we shall eagerly desire the highest things and shall toil with all our strength to obtain them, since we may if we wish.