Best Endeavour Quotes
179 Endeavour quotes by 136 unique authors
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The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature…
— George Washington
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according to culture-all reflect…
— Franz Boas
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Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined…
— William Penn
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If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret
— Fela Kuti
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Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to…
— George Henry Lewes
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Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.
— Ingmar Bergman
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Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
— Roddy Doyle
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And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it is thy power gives me strength to act.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
— Samuel Johnson
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Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of…
— William Wordsworth
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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection…
— Swami Vivekananda
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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, and…
— Unknown Author
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But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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We cannot, without depraving our minds, endeavour to please a lover or husband, but in proportion as he pleases us.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true art of healing.
— Samuel Hahnemann
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
— Elbert Hubbard
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If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then you’re competing against a lot of people, But if you’re willing to…
— Jeff Bezos
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This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.
— Steve Fossett
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Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold…
— Samuel Johnson
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We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also…
— Unknown Author
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There are two powers that alone can effect in their conjunction the great and dificult thing which is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Among peoples who are geographically grouped together like the peoples of Europe there must exist a sort of federal link. It is this link which…
— Aristide Briand
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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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…
— Haile Selassie
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