Best Endeavour Quotations
179 Endeavour quotes by 136 unique authors
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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous…
— Philippe Halsman
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Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve the name, must…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement…
— Cedric Price
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The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force to their well-meant…
— Joseph Lancaster
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His high endeavours are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.
— William Wordsworth
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The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,…
— William Godwin
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They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one another.
— Thomas Browne
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Every endeavour pursued with passion produces a successful outcome, regardless of the result. For it is not about winning or losing – rather, the effort…
— Matthew Syed
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The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries…
— Lewis Gordon
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In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives of so many…
— Lowell Milken
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The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.
— Johann Heinrich Lambert
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Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is…
— Timothy Keller
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The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms…
— William Ernest Henley
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I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former…
— Robert E. Lee
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We ought as much as we can to endeavour the Perfecting of our Beings, and that we be as happy as possibly we may.
— Mary Astell
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A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis…
— Calvin Seerveld
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Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you're working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
— Martin Scorsese
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Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but…
— Chris Cornell
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Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.
— Jay Griffiths
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That there is a Spring, or Elastical power in the Air we live in. By which ελατνρ [elater] or Spring of the Air, that which…
— Robert Boyle
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There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of…
— Will Self
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After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original,…
— Henry Peach Robinson
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If many people follow your enthusiastic endeavours, perhaps a new Athens might be created in the land of the Franks, or rather a much better…
— Alcuin
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I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in…
— Robert Boyle
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It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the…
— Samuel Johnson
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