You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in…

The gods in Yoruba mythology are not remote at all. They're benign, they're malign, they are mischievous, like Eshu for instance, tricksters, rascally, fornicators,…

— Wole Soyinka

I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree…

— Wole Soyinka

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such…

— John Frederick Nims

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

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

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

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

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

— Adolf Hitler

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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