Quotes about Endeavors

History is clear that, in most endeavors, success is a product of uncompromising attention to purpose.

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of GOD, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. That we should not wonder if, in the beginning, we often failed in our endeavors, but that at last we should gain a habit, which will naturally produce its acts in us, without our care, and to our exceeding great delight.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

I enjoy creating new ideas, working on new creative projects.

You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

Concern for man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors, concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods--in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).