Quotes About Endeavor

good or bad, an idea only exists when someone tries to put it into practice.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Behind each triumph are new peaks to be conquered.

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

Great accomplishments start with great aspirations.

What one has to do usually can be done.

We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.

Likewise, everyone at the Circle there had been chosen, and thus the gene pool was extraordinary, the brainpower phenomenal. It was a place where everyone endeavored, constantly and passionately, to improve themselves, each other, share their knowledge, disseminate it to the world.

It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs.

Vision is not enough; it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must step up the stairs. —Václav Havel

One does one's best - Silk

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Age, thou hast lost thy labor.

That's how it begins, making a film, writing a book, painting a picture, composing a tune, generally creating something. You have a wish. You wish that something might exist, and then you work on it until it does.

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.