It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late — Christine Lagarde Copy Share Image
With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour. — Steve Fossett Copy Share Image
Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If I can be dead honest with you, when I first see the script for a new episode of 'Endeavour,' if anything… — Shaun Evans Copy Share Image
I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography… — Angela Cartwright Copy Share Image
Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
To conclude, therefore, let no man out of a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere.… — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The student who would build his knowledge on solid foundations, and proceed by just degrees to the pinnacles of truth, is directed… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The people of the Falkland Islands, like the people of the United Kingdom, are an island race. They are few in number… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Action is always seen as the bottom rung of thespian endeavour, that's just the way it is. — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours. — Mithun Chakraborty Copy Share Image
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord. — Sallust Copy Share Image
“Now we don't care 'bout rain or shine: when you're in space the weather's fine.” — Jorge Otero Copy Share Image
By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image