Endeavor Quotes

She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

Success is a dangerous element in any endeavor. Embrace the struggle. Beware the achievement. For it steals your caution even as it leads you down the next unknown pathway.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.

The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.

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?

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.

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.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

Resolved, to endeavor to obtain for myself as much happiness, in the other world, as I possibly can.

Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important.

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

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

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.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

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!

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

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

I've challenged (Donovan McNabb) to whatever athletic endeavor he wants, but he laughs it off

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

There is no endeavor more noble than the attempt to achieve a collective dream.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

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.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

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.

A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.