Endeavor Quotes

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. (Joseph Addison)
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I believe that no endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. View quote
Edward Teller
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. View quote
Alexander Pope
One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. View quote
Epictetus
I am bound by my own definition of criticism a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. View quote
Matthew Arnold
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. View quote
Vince Lombardi
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion. (Jeremy Bentham)
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept. View quote
Pierre Loti
It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reality of tomorrow. Utopias are conceived by optimistic logic which regards constant social and political progress as the ultimate goal of human endeavor; pessimism would plunge a hopeless mankind into a fresh cataclysm. View quote
Charles Albert Gobat
Raising children is a creative endeavor, an art rather than a science. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
An essential idea is that if you give to some person or endeavor in life, you will make that more important. View quote
George Weinberg
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done. View quote
Barbara Jordan
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. View quote
José Martí
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures. View quote
Thomas Malthus
If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor. (George Carlin)
In my view, what is wanted in industrial organization is a direct approach to the problem. This would concentrate on what activities firms undertake, and would endeavor to discover the characteristics of the groupings of activities within firms. Which activities tend to be associated and which do not? The answer may well differ for different kinds of firm. View quote
Ronald Coase
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another. View quote
Chrysippus
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. View quote
Thomas à Kempis