quotes about Endeavour
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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 win him over, or decry him.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.
-- Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuveSource : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1875). “English Portraits”, p.91, London : Daldy, Isbister
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Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it
-- Elbert Hubbard -
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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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 -
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 SaintsburySource : George Saintsbury, Foreword By Mohit K. Ray (2004). “History Of English Criticism”, p.535, Atlantic Publishers & Dist
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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 -
No endeavour is in vain; Its reward is in the doing.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. [Lat., Et mihi res, non me rebus, subjungere conor.]
-- Horace -
Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.
-- Ivan KlÃmaSource : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.24, Grove Press
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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 -
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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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 -
No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
-- William Golding -
Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.
-- Multatuli -
Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's part of any endeavour, not just writing.
-- Roddy Doyle -