--- title: "4 Endeavor Quotes By Aristotle" description: "4 Endeavor quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Endeavor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/aristotle-78_endeavor_all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow_23073.png" --- > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/aristotle-78_endeavor_all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow_23073.png) > [To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we-must-endeavor-to-possess-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/aristotle-78_character_to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we_739298.png) > [In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-practical-matters-the-end-is-not-mere-speculative-knowledge-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90e/aristotle-78_deeds_in-practical-matters-the-end-is-not-mere_2284242.png) > [Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/nor-was-civil-society-founded-merely-to-preserve-the-lives-of-its/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5e6/aristotle-78_alliances_nor-was-civil-society-founded-merely-to_2603408.png) ## Other authors on Endeavor - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 22 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-jefferson-90435.jpg) Thomas Jefferson 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-jefferson/) - [Samuel Johnson 13 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-baruch-spinoza-16597.jpg) Baruch Spinoza 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/baruch-spinoza/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-aung-san-suu-kyi-15696.jpg) Aung San Suu Kyi 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/aung-san-suu-kyi/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-a-kempis-90210.jpg) Thomas a Kempis 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/thomas-a-kempis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-theodore-roosevelt-90083.jpg) Theodore Roosevelt 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/theodore-roosevelt/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-ralph-marston-77085.jpg) Ralph Marston 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/ralph-marston/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/blaise-pascal/) ## More by Aristotle > [The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-knowledge-of-the-soul-admittedly-contributes-greatly-to-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/young-men-have-strong-passions-and-tend-to-gratify-them/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-body-is-at-its-best-between-the-ages-of-thirty-and-thirty-five/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-ensouled-is-distinguished-from-the-unsouled-by-its-being-alive/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/although-it-may-be-difficult-in-theory-to-know-what-is-just-and-equal/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-true-forms-of-government-therefore-are-those-in-which-the-one-or/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All men by nature desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-men-by-nature-desire-to-know/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/give-a-man-a-fish-you-feed-him-for-a-day-give-a-man-a-poisoned-fish/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-confers-a-favour-would-rather-not-be-repaid-in-the-same/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-does-not-consist-in-pastimes-and-amusements-but-in-virtuous/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confined-to-philosophers-but/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-virtue-is-a-mean-between-two-extremes-each-of-which-is-a-vice/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/endeavor/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "4 Endeavor Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/aristotle-78_endeavor_all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow_23073.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/aristotle-78_endeavor_all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow_23073.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/432/aristotle-78_endeavor_all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow_23073.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we-must-endeavor-to-possess-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/aristotle-78_character_to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we_739298.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/aristotle-78_character_to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we_739298.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bb/aristotle-78_character_to-know-what-virtue-is-is-not-enough-we_739298.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other…” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. 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