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Quotes About Endeavor

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646
~ Charles Dickens
Ama ne yaz?k ki elimden gelenler içimden gelenlerin gerisinde kal?rd?.
~ Charles Dickens
Go and be somethingological directly.
~ Charles Dickens
The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and, the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.
~ Charles Dickens
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
For too many believers the Christian life boils down to simply doing the best they can.
~ Charles F. Stanley
We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
We can try, but
~ Grace Thompson
I believe in love the verb, not the noun.
~ Greg Behrendt
But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2
~ Greg Mortenson
Fallarás el cien por ciento de los tiros que no intentes».
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
~ Gustave Flaubert
He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he'd contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
~ H. G. Wells
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
~ H. Jackson Brown (Jr.)
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Don't wait for the right moment to start. "Don't wait for things to happen. And do not fear failure but rather fear of not trying.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you have it in you, try to do something that defines you. Because everything happens within you and that is worth trying.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I've got only one chance to give... my best shot.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Hackberry Holland's greatest fear was his fellow man's propensity to act collectively, in militaristic lockstep, under the banner of God and country. Mobs did not rush across town to do good deeds, and in Hackberry's view, there was no more odious taint on any social or political endeavor than universal approval.
~ James Lee Burke
Remember, Michael Sean, she'd always say, it's never the job you do but how hard you do it.
~ James Patterson
I want to try. Isn't that what matters—that I want to try?
~ James Patterson
Leading the coalition military effort during the surge in Iraq in 2007 and 2008 was the most important endeavor - and greatest challenge - of my 37 years in uniform.
~ David Petraeus
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all he can do.
~ Henry Drummond