Quotes about Endeavor

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

History which is not professedly utilitarian, history which is didactic only as great poetry is unconsciously didactic, may yet possess that highest form of usefulness, the power to thrill the souls of men with stories of strength and craft and daring, and to lift them out of their common selves to the heights of high endeavor.

However, because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than live well, they are often deceived and get no or very little benefits.

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

I have tried so hard to do right.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.