Quotes About Endeavor

The only true failure is to never try.

Any calling to better the world no matter how small is the highest.

At the core of prosperity is inspiration to appropriate action, action to appropriate inspiration and action in reaction to appropriate inspiration.

CHORUS Gird thee for the high endeavor; Shun the crowd's ignoble ease! Fails the spirit never, Wise to think, and prompt to seize. Goethe, Faust, Part II, act 1, 50–53

There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.

The genius, even when he endeavours only to entertain with pleasing images of nature, or instruct by uncontested principles of science, yet suffers persecution from innumerable criticks, whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and of hearing applauses which another enjoys.

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor. And

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.

To him who hears for the first time this weird song, is told the first and greatest secret of the Northland; to him who has heard it often, it is the solemn knell of lost endeavor. It is the plaint of tortured souls, for in it is invested the heritage of the North, the suffering of countless generations—the warning and the requiem to the world's estrays.

It is all we can do to try. It is enough.

we can but try to do good. And you did. What he's done with it is up to him.

Always seeking to do rather than to be. Do you really seek the counsel of the spirit?

Exert yourself ceaselessly in decreasing evil and accumulating good.

A crucial aspect of purpose is that it's always worked towards, but never fully achieved, like chasing the earth's horizon or pursuing a guiding star.

A good mission has a finish line—you must be able to know when you've done it, like the moon mission or a mountaintop. A good mission is risky, falling in the gray area where reason says, "This is unreasonable," and intuition says, "But we believe we can do it nonetheless.

if you succeed or fail, what does it matter? The try will live forever!

We ask for progress, not perfection. Just do your best.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Any musical is a major undertaking.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.