Best Endeavour Sayings
179 Endeavour quotes by 136 unique authors
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Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly…
— John Naughton
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Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish…
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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The degree to which the arts are included in our educational curriculum is totally inadequate. The arts are just as important as math and science…
— Ken Danby
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When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any…
— Jeremiah Burroughs
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I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to inspire the pleasing hope…
— Edward Jenner
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I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
— Elizabeth Fry
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To be at peace in any endeavour, we must release our need to control the outcome.
— Diane Dreher
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I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
— Stephanie Rice
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If a writer publishes any thing that attracts notice, and is in itself just, but does not accord with our plan, we must endeavour to…
— Adam Weishaupt
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In south west Lancashire, babies don't toddle, they side-step. Queuing women talk of 'nipping round the blindside'. Rugby league provides our cultural adrenalin. It's a…
— Colin Welland
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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation…
— Winston Churchill
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Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's…
— Tony Blair
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You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but…
— Benjamin Franklin
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...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work…
— J. Paul Getty
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Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach…
— Horatius Bonar
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He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to…
— Samuel Johnson
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Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but,…
— George Whitefield
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Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late
— Christine Lagarde
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Wherefore is this? Because our common enemy, the Devil, endeavours with all his might to oppose the intentions of the God-man, Christ. He endeavours to…
— John of Kronstadt
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The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride,…
— John of Kronstadt
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Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that…
— Samuel Johnson
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Every one should consider himself as intrusted not only with his own conduct, but with that of others; and as accountable, not only for the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.
— Rudolf Steiner
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