Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to…

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…

— James Jeffrey Roche

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think…

— Jeremy Thomas

That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those…

— Anonymous

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves…

— Anonymous

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,…

— Percy Dearmer

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

— Adolf Hitler

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours…

— David Hume

We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should…

— John Venn

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to…

— Horatius Bonar

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.

— Ken Danby

To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.

— Diane Dreher

Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious…

— Dogen

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

— Jean de la Bruyere