Quotes About Endeavor

It is not our job to work miracles, but it is our task to try.

This is the first time I've done something like this and I'm really hoping this will work.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.

We have to always set an aspiration for ourselves and then strive to get there.

To be challenged means to strive. I'm almost certain that's true.

The biggest thing my parents gave me was this feeling of, not 'dream big,' but strive big.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

I think there's only one interesting story... and that's struggle.

All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard.

I am still where I started. I am still struggling. In fact, the struggle has only got bigger. I always try to go beyond my means, and this where the struggle comes in.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.

I enjoy challenging myself to try new things, going outdoors, scuba diving, running a marathon. Anything that I have never done before, I enjoy trying it out.

The only true failure is the failure of not trying.

Hvis man prøver av alle krefter, til det ytterste, må det ikke være hensikten som teller mest, teller mer enn hvordan det til slutt gikk?

Just give it a try, please, Pyrite,

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

We still equate fair skin with superior intelligence. Even equate it with beauty. The sun is too strong here. It darkens us and saps us. Paleness is synonymous with worldly success, because paleness is the mark of intellectual, not physical endeavor and worldly success is seldom achieved with the muscles.