Endeavor famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Imagination is the cornerstone of human endeavor.
-- Alex Faickney Osborn -
To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
-- Alexander Pope -
What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them
-- Andrew Combe -
Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.
-- Anna Deavere Smith -
I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor,
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
-- Barbara Sher -
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them
-- Ben Yagoda -
Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?
-- Benjamin Franklin -
To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.
-- Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor -
I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
-- Chris Patten -
All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.
-- Chuck Jones -
When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
-- Confucius -
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.
-- Edmund Clarence Stedman -
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
-- Edward Dahlberg -
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
-- Elie Wiesel -
Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.
-- Ellen Ochoa -
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen -
Those having the most time to devote to a line of endeavor usually become the most proficient.
-- George Ade -
In those things toward which we exerted our best endeavors we succeeded.
-- George S. Clason -
Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
-- George Washington -
My dad's supportive of all my endeavors.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.
-- Granville Sharp -
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
-- Gustav Mahler -
I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.
-- Horace Bushnell -
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
-- Irving Stone -
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.
-- Jane Alexander -
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
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 -
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.
-- John Owen -
I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.
-- Joseph Addison -
I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others.
-- Joshua Reynolds -
Doing actual comedic material is just about the most joyful endeavor ever. That's the truth. The only time it's not funny is when business gets in the way.
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus -
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel -
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.
-- Langdon Elwyn Mitchell -
Alas, this mundane realm is never as fun as the one inside our minds. But we can endeavor to make it so.
-- Larry Atchley Jr. -
After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.
-- Louis Calhern -
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases.
-- Martin Luther -
The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.
-- Mary Elizabeth Braddon -
Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
The surest way to lose at any endeavor is to quit.
-- Morgan Freeman -
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a scholar but the stamina of a horse.
-- Nancy Milford -
We endeavor to stuff the universe into the gullet of an aphorism.
-- Paul Eldridge -
I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.
-- Paul Oakenfold -
Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.
-- Paul Tournier -
What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.
-- Pauli Murray -
My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.
-- Pierre Loti -
True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.
-- Priscilla Shirer -
Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.
-- Propertius -
Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.
-- Rick Majerus -
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
-- Robert Browning -
Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.
-- Robert Silverberg -
Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
-- Samuel Gompers -
When there is no hope, there can be no endeavor.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
-- Sidney Lanier -
Opportunity is the best captain of all endeavor.
-- Sophocles -
Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.
-- Spike Lee -
Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.
-- Thomas a Kempis -
Literature is a peculiarly public product of a particularly private endeavor.
-- Valerie Miner -
I endeavor to make the most of everything.
-- Victoria Woodhull -
Virtually every discipline and endeavor is presently under a naturalistic pall.
-- William A. Dembski -
It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.
-- William Carey -
Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
-- Willie Sutton -
The earth has always supported me in all my endeavors. I trust it.
-- Elaine Equi -
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.
-- Marcia Clark -
Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.
-- Adrian Tomine -
You can't say I'm going to become a painter in the same way you say I'm going to become a dentist. Or maybe you can nowadays. But it's an endeavor.
-- Brice Marden -
However gemlike mathematical truths may be, research is but a human endeavor.
-- H. David Burton -
I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.
-- Karan Johar
