Endeavour Quotes
Endeavour Quote of the day
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is.
Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort put forth in producing the outcome.
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty God that he would bless the results for us
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.
Attitude is tremendously important in chasing success - in any field of endeavour. That's why I believe talent alone will get you very little in this world.
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to win him over, or decry him.
Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.
We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
War knows no power. Safe shall be my going, Secretly armed against all death's endeavour; Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall; And if these poor limbs die, safest of all.
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions.
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
The bourgeoisie incites the workers of one nation against those of another in the endeavour to keep them disunited.
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man to service, and ennobles great and small alike.
Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.
Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever.
First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.
He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.
I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.
It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.