Quotes About Endeavor

The goal was never to beat the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater.

No matter how hard you try, You can't build a rainman.

Try hard. Be true. Enjoy. Godspeed.

Any big project in life requires action. I know this seems obvious, but a lot of people would rather buy a book.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle

It is the fight alone that please us, not the victory.

Economists like to strike the pose of a scientist. I know, because I often do it myself. When I teach undergraduates, I very consciously describe the field of economics as a science, so no student would start the course thinking he was embarking on some squishy academic endeavor.'1

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting—in the trying, not the triumph. WYNN DAVIS

conditions, an effort to reconcile the spirit which loves freedom and goodness and beauty with its harsh, bare and disappointing conditions. It is, in its earliest form, a spontaneous and instinctive endeavor to shape the facts of the world to meet the needs

Not by such calculation is human endeavor measured. Sacrifice is nobler than ease, unselfish life is consummated in lonely death, and the world is richer by the gift of suffering.

Is it said that too high a price in the lives of men was paid for this knowledge? Not by such calculation is human endeavour measured. Sacrifice is nobler than ease, unselfish life is consummated in lonely death, and the world is richer by the gift of suffering.

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says, "Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest." I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?).

I am here, trying. I am a person who tries. I do what I fucking can. It's okay to just try.

That is the other thing novelist do. We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

We imagine the world we hope for and endeavor, with the greatest power we have, to bring that world into being.

Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.

The kindest souls are ever Those who sin and suffer most, And who thoughtfully endeavor To forget whereof men boast.

It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important thing is not trying your best, but getting to safety.

I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else.

Greatly begin! though thou hast time But for a line, be that sublime -- Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Luck is where hard work meets opportunity.