Top 100 Quotes About Endeavor
#1. All will concede that in order to have good neighbors, we must also be good neighbors. That applies in every field of human endeavor.
Harry S. Truman
#2. For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate.
Albert Einstein
#3. You appear to have a good project ... we wish you well in this endeavor.
David Packard
#5. While England endeavors to cure the potato-rot, will not any endeavor to cure the brain-rot, which prevails so much more widely and fatally?
Henry David Thoreau
#6. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
George Bernard Shaw
#7. They assumed the endeavor was brilliant and rational because they were brilliant and rational, and we tend to automatically assume that everybody else is basically just like us.
Jon Ronson
#8. Let us endeavor to commence every enterprise with a pure view to the glory of God, continue it without distraction, and finish it without impatience.
Francois Fenelon
#9. We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.
Ben Gibbard
#11. In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
George S. Clason
#12. But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration - because it's a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks ...
James Cameron
#13. In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#14. My constant endeavor is to know, believe, practise and prove that ' I ' am and will always be SUPERIOR to circumstance.
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#15. On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it
Benjamin Franklin
#16. Reputation is a reward, to be sure, but it is really the beginning, not the end of endeavor. It should not be the signal for a let-down, but rather, a reminder that the standards which won recognition can never again be lowered. From him who gives much - much is forever after expected.
Alvan Macauley
#17. The English invented cricket to make other human endeavors look interesting.
Bill Bryson
#18. The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.
James Gould Cozzens
#20. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
Jonathan Swift
#21. Every good endeavor should be done with purpose. Without a clear sense of purpose, our efforts to do a good thing well can flounder. But with a clear purpose, we are far more likely to persevere.
Jen Wilkin
#22. It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
James Russell Lowell
#23. Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor".
Sherman Alexie
#24. Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.
Bohdi Sanders
#25. Peace will never be won if men reserve for war their greatest efforts, Peace, too, requires well-directed and sustained sacrificial endeavor. Given that, we can, I believe, achieve the great goal of our foreign policy, that of enabling our people to enjoy in peace the blessings of liberty.
John Foster Dulles
#26. Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
Joseph Pilates
#27. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Bertrand Russell
#28. The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
Stephen King
#29. My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.
Hans Frank
#30. Life is a great asset we must all endeavor to acquire, keep and daily maintain it well with all due diligence, for without life, all other assets have no real meaning to our lives.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#31. If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am:
I'm a genuine philanthropist
all other kinds are sham.
Each little fault of temper and each social defect
In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
W.S. Gilbert
#32. The devil will endeavor to fascinate through the eyes and through the mind.
Smith Wigglesworth
#33. If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will at least endeavor to prevail with God for men.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. There is no more compelling motivation to worthwhile endeavor than the knowledge that we are children of God, that God expects us to do something with our lives, and that He will give us help when help is sought.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#35. Chess reflects the real world in miniature. Endeavor, struggle, success, and defeat - they are part of each game ever played.
Bruce Pandolfini
#36. So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.
Geddy Lee
#37. Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
Benjamin Franklin
#38. Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.
Alex Epstein
#39. Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.
Rudolf Steiner
#40. The larger the mass of collected things, the less will be their usefulness. Therefore, one should not only strive to assemble new goods from everywhere, but one must endeavor to put in the right order those that one already possesses.
Gottfried Leibniz
#41. Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.
John Locke
#42. Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#43. Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.
George Ade
#45. Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.
John Keats
#46. Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.
Granville Sharp
#47. At its best, leadership development is not an "event." It's a capacity-building endeavor. It's a process of human growth and development.
Linda Fisher Thornton
#48. Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.
Adrian Tomine
#49. But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
Marc Bloch
#50. I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.
Ted Cruz
#51. For our race to achieve the true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophies proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art.
Dan Simmons
#52. I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I'd be if I'd have gone forward in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#53. But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31
Gordon S. Wood
#54. There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#55. The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.
Baruch Spinoza
#56. Sounds kind of ad hoc and jerry-rigged and haphazard.' 'Everybody's a critic. This wasn't an aesthetic endeavor.
David Foster Wallace
#57. Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.
Nina Easton
#58. This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
Jonathan Swift
#59. Success in any relationship or endeavor begins with trust.
S. Truett Cathy
#60. 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.
Christiane Amanpour
#61. Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.
Samuel Johnson
#62. Freedom is one of the principal goals of human endeavor, but the best use man can make of his freedom is to place limitations upon it.
Edwin Conklin
#63. Stop nourishing other people's ideas and beliefs in your life. Take up your own idea and endeavor to accomplish it.
Abhijit Naskar
#64. On the clarity of your ideas depends the scope of your success in any endeavor.
James Robertson
#65. We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#66. Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody - really want him - it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.
John Gruber
#68. We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
Barbara Jordan
#69. I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.
John Frusciante
#70. Ultimately, every great endeavor consists of many little steps.
Eckhart Tolle
#71. Awakening others is an impossible endeavor until I myself am awakened.
Pooja Ruprell
#72. The pursuit of historical relevance is an under appreciated endeavor.
Michael Dwinnell
#73. Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness in the other world as I possibly can, with all the power, might, vigor, and vehemence, yea violence, I am capable of.
Jonathan Edwards
#74. I believe persistence is a major key to success in any great endeavor. I want to remind folks to PERSIST in whatever they are tackling at the moment!
Andy Andrews
#75. 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.
Thomas A Kempis
#76. Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.
Thomas A Kempis
#77. We win, we loose, we will play like champions.
Endeavor
#78. 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.
Steven Pinker
#79. He that sees another in error and endeavors not to correct it, testifies himself to be in error.
Pope Leo I
#80. He'd done everything in his power to make damn certain that Daniel never had to fear coming home. At that endeavor, Cameron knew he'd already surpassed his own father.
Jennifer Ashley
#81. He saw firsthand the way that the Disney people took advantage of the open floor plan, sharing information and brainstorming. Steve was a big believer in the power of accidental mingling; he knew that creativity was not a solitary endeavor.
Ed Catmull
#82. Millions of people, in all walks of life and in every endeavor, create distractions and excuses for themselves by focusing on tools rather than on character. They'd rather, as Socrates warned, focus on what they have than on what they are.
Eric Greitens
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Andre Agassi
#84. Honestly, what the hell is destiny going to want from me now?"
"The same as any endeavor. Blood, sweat, and tears."
"That's it," Tohr said dryly. "And here I was thinking it could just be an arm or a leg.
J.R. Ward
#85. If opinion hath lighted the lamp of thy name, endeavor to encourage it with thy own oil, lest it go out and stink; the chronical disease of Popularity is shame; if thou be once up, beware; from fame to infamy is a beaten road.
Francis Quarles
#86. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it - and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Robert Greene
#87. All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
Chuck Jones
#88. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Francis Bacon
#89. The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.
Pope Francis
#90. The first impression is readily received. We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to efface them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#91. School can become a temple of learning only when the student, the guardian, and the society, in harmony, endeavor to make it a place of pursuit for education, a sadhana; where the spring of punctuality, sanctity and thirst for knowledge flows.
Narendra Modi
#92. Leave me to die a lonely death.
An artist's death.
A writer's playground.
A painter's background.
A philosopher's bread and butter.
An endeavor that we
all face. I just hope that
I'm not the only one
there.
A.P. Sweet
#93. If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way.
Gautama Buddha
#94. The only perfection available to you without compromise is that of intention and effort. If you endeavor to be the best pencil sharpener you can be, and tailor your actions accordingly, you can be certain all else will be forgiven in the final accounting.
David Rees
#95. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.
Cory Booker
#96. Working with someone is the best way to get to know someone, especially if it's a creative endeavor.
Ryan Gosling
#97. Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.
Horace
#98. 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.
Ellen Ochoa
#99. Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes in pitch-black pits of darkness is scarcely sedative.
("Out Of The Deep")
Walter De La Mare
#100. No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.
Jonathan Swift
