Endeavor Quotes

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

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.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

Training for the Olympics was a lifelong endeavor and took many years.

Over and over again, financial experts and wonkish talking heads endeavor to explain these mysterious, 'toxic' financial instruments to us lay folk. Over and over, they ignobly fail, because we all know that no one understands credit default obligations and derivatives, except perhaps Mr. Buffett and the computers who created them.

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to pass that in 2013.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I'm always frightened away by movies that lower the bar on our endeavor to learn more about the crazy weird creatures that we are.

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.