Endeavour Quotes

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.

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

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.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it

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.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.

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.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

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

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.

Success supposes 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.

Programming is legitimate and necessary academic endeavour.

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

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

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

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

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

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.