Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose
and direction.
-- John F. Kennedy
1917-1963,
Thirty-fifth President of the USA
But
the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten
out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly,
contending with the strange rapacity of savage life,
the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the
effort any more.
-- D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British
Author
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved
not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness
of the effort involved in getting there -- or
failing to get there.
-- Max Lerner
1902-, American
Author, Columnist
It is
not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that
he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts
forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the
worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but
the search after truth that he enlarges his power,
wherein alone consists his ever-increasing
perfection.
-- Gotthold Lessing
1729-1781, German
Dramatist, Critic
