Endeavour Quotes

Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which I wish to endeavour to establish.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.

Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Men are grown mechanical in head and in the heart, as well as in the hand. They have lost faith in individual endeavour, and in natural force of any kind.

They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

Commercial television has lowered the general standard of TV in an endeavour to get millions and masses of people to watch the advertising. But that is not the problem of the advertiser.

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour , so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology .

All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do--remember that--and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]

And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

Success supposes endeavour.

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.

We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many people.

With persistent endeavour, you can fulfilled your dreams.

Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true

Preoccupy your mind more and more thinking of strategies, methods of attaining possession in all areas of your life’s endeavour.

The pursuit of dreams is supernatural endeavours.

Our daily endeavours and activities should be about or around these value systems. They reflect love. They reflect care. They reflect kindness. They are qualities of heaven.

Everybody want to experience some form of pleasure in whatever they are doing and one of the sure ways of doing that is by seeing increase in your endeavors or results

Discipline is required in all human endeavours.

Every great endeavour is fueled by great enthusiasm.