Endeavour quotes

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 win him over, or decry him.
-- Adam Weishaupt

#Winning #Doe #Endeavour

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Enemy #Endeavour #Honour

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Endeavour #Polygamy

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

#Growing Up #Endeavour #Should

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result...Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully wasteful of time and values.
-- Emanuel Lasker

#Effort #Chess #Endeavour

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
-- George Saintsbury

#Criticism #World #Endeavour

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 would bless the results for us
-- Haile Selassie

#Bless #Permit #Endeavour

No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Rewards #Vain #Endeavour

And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
-- Horace

#Endeavour #Circumstances

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
-- Ivan Klíma

#Death #Vanity #Endeavour

It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.
-- John Constable

#Ambition #World #Endeavour

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

#May #Endeavour

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
-- Salman Khurshid

#People #Young #Endeavour

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
-- William Golding

#Cost #Endeavour #Humans

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
-- Multatuli

#Artist #Endeavour #Form

Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
-- Roddy Doyle

#Writing #School #Endeavour